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‘The Stunt Driver’ Helmer Michael Dowse on Working With Jay Baruchel, Building a Ramp and a Rocket Car: ‘It Wasn’t for the Faint of Heart’

Michael Dowse’s “The Stunt Driver,” starring Jay Baruchel as ’70s daredevil Ken Carter, who tried to jump a mile across the St. Lawrence River in a rocket car, roars into its Toronto Intl. Film Festival world premiere offering warm-but-never-fuzzy retro visions of stunts and cross-border tension that resonate in the present moment. Dowse has premiered […]

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‘The Stunt Driver’ Helmer Michael Dowse on Working With Jay Baruchel, Building a Ramp and a Rocket Car: ‘It Wasn’t for the Faint of Heart’
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