Corner Gas: The Movie
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| Directed by | David Storey |
| Produced by | Virginia Thompson |
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| Music by | Craig Northey |
| Cinematography | Ken Anton Krawczyk |
| Edited by | Craig Webster |
| Distributed by | Prairie Pants Distribution |
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95 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $8.5 million |
| Box office | $694,210 |
Corner Gas: The Movie is a 2014 Canadian comedy film starring Brent Butt based on the Corner Gas television series, reuniting the complete original cast of the program that aired on CTV from 2004 to 2009.
Hank, Brent, and Wanda stand silently at the Corner Gas counter. Hank cryptically asks "How long has it been?", with Brent answering April 13, 2009, referencing the series finale. An armed robber enters and demands money, but is attacked by Hank. The robber shoots Brent in the arm and rips off Wanda's face when she intervenes, revealing her to be a robot. Wanda uses lasers to disarm the robber, while Brent checks his now visible robotic arm. The robber turns into a werewolf, and Wanda begins to fight him when Hank wakes up with the National Star judge in front of him at the Regina Airport. They depart for Dog River, where the town is in a riot. Hank proceeds to explain the events that caused the town to fall apart.
Five years after the series finale, Fitzy has blown the town's money on a bad real estate investment in Detroit, leaving the town without electricity or water. A box that Davis checked on his contract allows the town to force him to retire on his 25th anniversary of police service. He leaves Wanda to watch his house which, with its two diesel-powered backup generators, is the only place in Dog River with reliable electrical power. Wanda turns Davis' garage into an illegal bar and later a casino. Karen, married and pregnant, begins issuing tickets in order to improve her stats and her job prospects should Dog River close and thus require her to find a job in another community's police department. Oscar becomes a survivalist and trades his car for a horse, which is confiscated by Karen and repeatedly stolen back. An epiphany leads Davis to become a private detective and begin solving "mysteries".
After realizing that the crisis won't blow over and Lacey will move away if Dog River goes bankrupt, Brent buys the closed town bar and enters Dog River into a "Quaintest Town in Canada" competition, hoping that the $75,000 prize can save the town. Emma invites Lacey and Brent to dinner to spark a romance in a bid to acquire grandchildren. Hank has a falling-out with Brent after Brent refuses to invest in his plan to bring a Coff-Nuts franchise to Dog River (which would hurt Lacey's restaurant). After Lacey advises a Coff-Nuts representative named Jerome that the town is broke, a woman representing a company called CN Holdings attempts to convince the townspeople to sell their homes. Hank overhears the woman and Jerome scheming, so he takes Jerome to Wullerton in hopes that Coff-Nuts will change its plan and ruin the rival town. He abandons Jerome, but Wullerton's astonishingly friendly citizens drive him back to Dog River. Both distracted -- Brent by repairs to the bar, and Lacey by a quest to restore the town's electricity -- Brent and Lacey forget to attend Emma's dinner.
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