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Foreign Tongue

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It's not easy being a foreigner. Certainly not easy being an immigrant. While Kathy Woodrow is neither of those things, she is unhappy, single, and profoundly lonely--everyone around her knows it. Her passion for wine is a "coping mechanism with a cork" but behind the pompous enthusiasm lurks a drinking problem which comes to a head at a speed dating event, where, after a few too many glasses of bad Pinot and a heavy pour of her trademark cynicism, Kathy has a dramatic fall. Тhe head injury lands her in a coma. When Kathy wakes up, she speaks with a thick Bosnian accent. According to the baffled neurologist, she has "foreign accent syndrome"--a real but extraordinarily rare condition, with only 78 known cases in recorded history. And just like that, Kathy becomes a foreigner. Not in the legal sense. Not in any tangible, passport-renewing way. But rather in the deeply inconvenient, identity-shattering, "why is the barista asking me where I'm from?" kind of way. Now a foreigner. To herself. To her friends. To the world she thought she knew. Kathy Woodrow has become what she least expected: A foreigner... within.

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Boris Mojsovski

Director

Kimberly-Sue Murray

Kathy

Steve Byers

David

Cintija Asperger

Visnja

Greg Bryk

Carl Jung

Rachael Ancheril

Lisa
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Synopsis It's not easy being a foreigner. Certainly not easy being an immigrant. While Kathy Woodrow is neither of those things, she is unhappy, single, and profoundly lonely--everyone around her knows it. Her passion for wine is a "coping mechanism with a cork" but behind the pompous enthusiasm lurks a drinking problem which comes to a head at a speed dating event, where, after a few too many glasses of bad Pinot and a heavy pour of her trademark cynicism, Kathy has a dramatic fall. Тhe head injury lands her in a coma. When Kathy wakes up, she speaks with a thick Bosnian accent. According to the baffled neurologist, she has "foreign accent syndrome"--a real but extraordinarily rare condition, with only 78 known cases in recorded history. And just like that, Kathy becomes a foreigner. Not in the legal sense. Not in any tangible, passport-renewing way. But rather in the deeply inconvenient, identity-shattering, "why is the barista asking me where I'm from?" kind of way. Now a foreigner. To herself. To her friends. To the world she thought she knew. Kathy Woodrow has become what she least expected: A foreigner... within.
Director
Boris Mojsovski
Producer
Münire Armstrong, Felipe Rodriguez, Boris Mojsovski
Screenwriter
Boris Mojsovski, Cintija Asperger
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 44m