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Man of Grease
2000 Canadian documentary film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Man of Grease is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Ezra Soiferman and released in 2000.[1] The film is a portrait of Tony Koulakis, a Greek immigrant who was the longtime owner of the Cosmos diner in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough of Montreal, Quebec, as he begins his preparations to retire and hand over ownership of the restaurant to his son Nikos and daughter Niki.[2]
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Distribution
The film premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival on August 28, 2000,[3] and was screened at other film festivals before having a brief commercial run in 2001.[4]
It was later released on DVD in 2011.[5]
A sequel film, with the working title The Holy Grill, was in the works at the time of Koulakis's official retirement in 2002,[6] although there is no knwon record of its completion or release.
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Awards
The film was a Jutra Award nominee for Best Documentary Film at the 3rd Jutra Awards in 2001.[7]
Followup
Several years after Tony Koulakis's retirement, he was stabbed to death in 2013,[8] with his son Yannis convicted of murder and sentenced to nine years in prison in 2016.[9]
Nikos and Niki Koulakis retained ownership of the restaurant until putting it up for sale in 2020.[10]
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