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Wilby Wonderful (tbc)

  • Run time: 1 hour 39 mins
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release date: 7th May 2005

Plot Synopsis

Wilby Wonderful is a bittersweet comedy about the difference a day makes. Over the course of twenty-four hours, the residents of the tiny island town of Wilby try to maintain business as usual in the face of very unusual business.

As a scandal threatens to rock the very foundation of Wilby Island, Duck MacDonald, the town’s dyslexic sign-painter, keeps interrupting the depressed video store owner Dan Jarvis (James Allodi) during his half-hearted suicide attempts. Meanwhile, Dan has enlisted the blindly-ambitious real estate agent, Carol French (Sandra Oh), to sell his house in an effort to quickly tie up the last of his loose ends. Carol however is more interested in selling her recently deceased mother-in-law’s house to Mayor Brent Fisher, in order to get on-side with the in-crowd.

To take her social step up, Carol could use the help of her police officer husband, Buddy, but Buddy has his hands full with perennially-sexy, wrong-side-of-the-tracks Sandra Anderson, who can never decide if she is coming or going. Sandra’s daughter Emily, is none too thrilled about her mother repeating her typical pattern of late nights and married men, but Emily herself is just about to have her heart broken for the very first time. Of course

everyone’s concerns are going to be very different tonight when someone finds the body in the closet. Welcome to Wilby.