Defendor (2009) on Netflix
Arthur Poppington works by day at a government construction depot. After dark he takes to the streets as Defendor, hunting Captain Industry, the nemesis he blames for his mother's death.
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Plot summary
Defendor is the costumed identity Arthur Poppington adopts for his nighttime patrols, though he has no powers. He blames a criminal he calls Captain Industry for his mother's death and patrols the streets looking for him. After a confrontation with the corrupt detective Chuck Dooney, Arthur is arrested, but Captain Fairbanks judges him harmless and releases him. Arthur then meets Katerina Debrofkowitz, known as Angel, a young prostitute who was with Dooney that night. When Dooney's friends beat Arthur badly, Angel helps him recover, and he takes her to live with him at the depot. His boss and friend Paul Carter worries about him.
Cast
- David Gardneras Grandpa Henry
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Defendor (2009)
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- Elliot Page was originally set to star in Peter Stebbings' Defendor, which was slated to begin production in 2007, but Page withdrew from the film.
- Numerous major Hollywood studios declined to option Peter Stebbings' Defendor script because it did not fit into a particular genre; Stebbings said they "didn't want to touch it, but all the actors and their agents wanted to."
- To help Kat Dennings make her character's sex work and crack-cocaine use more realistic, Defendor's producers consulted Toronto social-services workers and sex-workers'-rights activist and former sex worker Wendy Babcock.
- Peter Stebbings obtained about one quarter of Defendor's C$4 million budget from Telefilm Canada and "turn[ed] over stones to find the rest"; after adding all of his personal savings, the film was still $100,000 under its financial requirements.
