Listen to the City (1984)

Listen To The City is a 1984 dramatic film directed by Ron Mann. Normally a documentary filmmaker, this is Mann's only fictional feature. The film stars P.J. Soles, Jim Carroll, Sandy Horne and Michael Glassbourg. Featured in small or cameo roles are such notable Canadian counter-culture figures as poets bp nichol and Barry Callaghan, politician Jack Layton, playwright Sky Gilbert and radio broadcaster Geets Romo.

The movie's score was by Gordon Deppe of the Canadian band Spoons, of which the film's co-star Sandy Horne was also a member. Two Spoons songs included on the film's soundtrack -- "Tell No Lies" and "Romantic Traffic" -- would become substantial hits in Canada.

Synopsis

Hupar (Jim Carroll) wakes up from a 20-year coma. Disoriented, he soon meets Arete, a young poet (Sandy Horne) and Sophis, a TV newswoman (P.J. Soles). Together, the three team up to expose corporate crime in a crumbling cityscape of the very near future.

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