St. Urbain's Horseman by Mordecai Richler

We just didn't do that until much, much later, past Jake's time,' he said. 'From a Canadian culture perspective, there's a case to be made to say that this was Canada back in those days, so frightened of actually stepping out and creating their own literature, their own movies, their own art.

Urbain's Horseman is really about the conflict between what's out in the world and what your inner standard of judgment drives you to do, Moss said. Instead, the producers decided to focus on the love story interwoven with Jake's internal struggles and his scandalous trial, where he stands accused of sodomy and exploitation of an underage girl along with Stein. They were all internal, they were all things he thought and didn't happen,' Moss said. Joey was the standard of what Jake thought he ought to be. 'The deepest part of Jake is that Joey was a character he used to judge himself. Naked Josh as Jake, British stage actress Selina Giles as Nancy Croft, Michael Riley ( This is Wonderland) as the leering Cockney accountant Harry Stein, SCTV alumna Andrea Martin as the Hersh matriarch and veteran screen star Elliott Gould as Uncle Abe.

The film brings together a cast that stars David Julian Hirsh of the Showcase TV series 'We had a lot of physical challenges that we needed to overcome to get the flavour of the story exactly right.' So you have to choose the angle that you're going to approach the story on,' Moss said in a telephone interview from Hamilton, where he is shooting a CBC movie. 'When you have a book that sprawling and you only have four hours to tell the story. But acclaimed director Peter Moss and Emmy Award-nominated screenwriter Joe Wiesenfeld decided to take one more stab at lifting the story off the page, this time focusing on the love story between Jake and his wife, Nancy Croft, and only touching lightly on Jake's torturous internal struggle with reuniting with his legendary cousin Joey and his own Jewish identity.

St. Urbain's Horseman by Mordecai Richler