The Long Weekend

This article is about the 2005 film. For other uses, see Long Weekend (disambiguation).

The Long Weekend is a 2005 British-Canadian film starring Chris Klein and Brendan Fehr as two brothers, Cooper (Klein) and Ed Waxman (Fehr). It also stars Chelan Simmons, Paul Campbell, Chandra West, and Cobie Smulders.

The Long Weekend
Movie poster
Directed by	Pat Holden
Written by	Tad Safran
Produced by	Shawn Williamson Paul Brooks
Starring	Chris Klein Brendan Fehr Chelan Simmons Paul Campbell Chandra West Cobie Smulders
Production company	Brightlight Pictures
Distributed by	Gold Circle Films
Release dates	5 August 2005 (2005-08-05) (Spain) 4 August 2006 (2006-08-04) (Canada)
Running time	85 minutes
Countries	Canada United Kingdom[1]
Language	English
Budget	$1,200,000[2]
Box office	$3,540,754[3]

Plot

Cooper is an actor who sees life as one big party, while Ed is in advertising and takes life too seriously. When Ed gets stressed over a deadline he has to meet, Cooper works to get his brother hooked up with a girl, thus a long weekend of stress and beautiful women, culminating in Ed's meeting, and making love to, the woman of his dreams - and all without his brother's meddling.

Cast

• Chris Klein as Cooper Waxman
• Brendan Fehr as Ed Waxman
• Chandra West as Kim
• Craig Fairbrass as Frank
• Paul Campbell as Roger
• Cobie Smulders as Ellen
• Chelan Simmons as Susie
• Andy Thompson as Officer Garcia
• Evangeline Lilly as Simone