Sugar Daddy

McCormack's performance is achingly vulnerable and the filmmaking has an intimate, almost documentary mood.

Sugar Daddy will be gripping viewing for anyone who wonders what it takes to make it - and whether it's all worth it in the end.

With women as director, writer, cinematographer and editor, this thought-provoking film presents an exploration, through a feminist lens, of the intersections of love and money in relationships between women and men...

It's a breakout role for McCormack (who has been acting, singing, and performing since she was 7) deserving of notice.

A strong, complicated character is created and brought to life by writer/lead actor Kelly McCormack in director Wendy Morgan's first narrative feature Sugar Daddy.

The scenes in which Darren composes her pieces and performs them are moody, thought-provoking, and carefully styled.

Wendy Morgan, who has helmed music videos, offers some inventive musical sequences. But it's one in which Darren sings a cappella with her sister that most conveys the magic that music represents for the character.

"Sugar Daddy is a film that contains many layers... they all come together to create a film that forces us to think about many themes, which then lead to some interesting conversations about its themes and our reactions to them."

Sugar Daddy isn't Hollywood's Pretty Woman fantasy of escort work. If people want to take a realistic trip inside the world of an unusual Canadian woman who becomes an escort, then get ready for Kelly McCormack's tour-de-force performance in Sugar Daddy.

A notable debut feature by director Wendy Morgan.