I Declare War (film)
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| Directed by | Jason Lapeyre Robert Wilson |
| Produced by | Patrick Cameron Robert Wilson Lewin Webb |
| Written by | Jason Lapeyre |
| Starring | Siam Yu Gage Munroe Michael Friend |
| Music by | Nick Dyer Eric Cadesky |
| Cinematography | Ray Dumas |
| Edited by | Aaron Marshall |
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Samaritan Entertainment
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| Distributed by | Phase 4 Films |
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93 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $14,928 |
I Declare War is a 2012 Canadian action comedy-drama film written and co-directed by Jason Lapeyre and Robert Wilson. The film, about a group of friends who get together for a game of capture the flag that escalates into violence, was an Official Selection in the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival and was given a limited release in U.S. theatres on August 30, 2013.
Co-director Jason Lapeyre wrote the script ten years earlier and based it on his childhood experiences of playing war with a bunch of people saying, "Almost everything that happens in this script is autobiographical or inspired by things that actually happened". The script was picked up by producer Lewin Webb of Samaritan Entertainment and he forwarded it to his partner Robert Wilson, where it went through years of development and financial issues. Wilson was frustrated by the process the script was going through until he read through it and was reminded of what it was like to be the characters: "It was the experience I had growing up, the experience even Lewin had growing up, the experience Jason had growing up. There wasn’t much else to talk about or worry about at that point".
The film made its US premiere at ActionFest on April 15, 2012, winning Best Picture. It made its Canadian premiere at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival as its Official Selection on September 6, 2012. It then premiered at the Newport Beach International Film Festival on April 25, 2013. It was released in select theatres across Toronto on May 10, 2013. On May 20, 2013, it premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival. It premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 23, 2012 and won the Audience Award on the next day.
I Declare War received generally positive reviews from critics. Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes has the film at a 68% rating, based on 37 reviews who gave it an average rating of 6.4/10. On Metacritic, it has a score of 58/100 based on 17 reviews that gave it "mixed or average" reviews.
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