Created by Brent Butt
“Whoa! Where are all the guns coming from? This is Canada!”
Lovably schlubby Canadian actor/comedian Brent Butt writes and stars in No Clue, a 2014 comedy in which mild-mannered, middle-aged Vancouver novelty salesman LEO FALLOON with offices on Pender Street.
Nope, he’s not a private eye at all, but is mistaken for a private eye by Kyra, a “stone cold gorgeous dish of smoking red hot fox meat” who wants to hire him to find her missing brother.
Leo doesn’t put her straight, figuring it’s the only way someone that gorgeous will ever spend time with him, and the usual hijinks ensue. Including, surprise, surprise, that Kyra isn’t quite who she says she is either.
Sure, it sounds like a rewrite of Bob Hope’s My Favorite Brunette, but give Butt a shot. His low-key blend of comedy and folksy, self-deprecating wit (imagine Woody Allen as a boy from the Canadian prairies) goes down easy, and his over-boiled attempts at snappy patter are satisfyingly ridiculous. And there’s even an actual mystery of sorts to be solved—although of course Leo gets it all wrong.
THE EVIDENCE
- “Ow! You’re pinching the fatty part of my arm!”
- “…a smouldering tower of nuclear hotitude.”
— Leo describes Kyra to his buddy - “…skin as smooth as a hard-boiled egg.”
FILMS
- NO CLUE | Buy the DVD | Watch it now!
(2014, Sparrow Media)
Written by Brent Butt
Directed by Carl Bessai
Starring Brent Butt as LEO FALLOON
with Amy Smart as Kyra
Also starring David Koechner, David Cubittm, Dan Payne, Kirsten Prou, Dustin Milligan, Garwin Sanford, Leanne Lapp, Jamie Hutchinson, Kendra Anderson
FURTHER INVESTIGATION
- Vancouver and Beautiful British Columbia
Private Eyes of Canada’s West Coast
Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.
