Give peace a chance!

 In 1980 a medical emergency lands a comatose Jill Vikik in hospital… The same hospital that John Lennon is brought to on the night that he is shot.  

This is not the first time that fate has brought these two people together. Jill’s best friend, Matt, sits at her bedside as she clings to life - a lifeshe has shared with him since they were both nine years old.  As Mattholds vigil at Jill’s bedside, he travels back in his mind to twenty yearsbefore and to the very day when he first fell in love with her – it was in1961 and Jill’s family had just moved into the house right next door tohis in Albany.  

From the instant that Matt meets Jill he wants to, needs to, be her bestfriend.  What guy wouldn’t - she can sing “The Star Spangled Banner”while performing a walking-handstand, she can cuss like a sailor onleave, she has a mean right-hook … and then, in 1964, she introduceshim to the music of a band that will influence a generation for yearsto come - The Beatles.  

A universal story of how life-altering events define us, “Give Peace AChance!” is a romantic-comedy that follows two teenaged best friends -Jill and Matt - as they hitchhike from Albany, New York to Canada tomeet their idol John Lennon at his “Bed-In For Peace” in Room 1742at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec. Audiences will delight in the scenes where our heroes hitchhike ridesto Montreal from, among others, a traveling hockey team, a feisty nunand a Quebecois Frenchman with an aged dog with “irritable bowelsyndrome”!

Written by former ‘Second City’ writer/performer Richard M. Dumont(nominated for both a Dora Mavor Moore Award for “Best WrittenComedy” as well as for a recent ACTRA Award), “Give Peace A Chance!”is a coming-of-age/road trip comedy in the vein of “Stand By Me” thatexplores the-less-than-obvious differences between boys and girls,like in “When Harry Met Sally”.  

Aimed at a general audience, “Give Peace A Chance!” is high-conceptcomedy mixed with political-social commentary that, though set in the1960s, refuses to be confined to that decade as it closely mirrors today'sglobal political climate.  The film inspires laughter ( … and a few tears),as it walks the fine line between substance and subtlety, offering us afresher understanding of some of our own unresolved questions – exactlywhat an insightful comedy does at its very best.

Give Peace A Chance! is a boy-meets-girl story, a love story, and aroad-trip down memory lane with two smart and very funny young peoplein search of… John Lennon