Christopher Plummer reflects on roots ahead of Canadian Screen Awards

Christopher Plummer, a cast member in the classic film “The Sound of Music,” arrives for a 50th anniversary screening of the film at the opening night gala of the 2015 TCM Classic Film Festival on March 26, 2015, in Los Angeles. Christopher Plummer, a cast member in the classic film “The Sound of Music,” arrives for a 50th anniversary screening of the film at the opening night gala of the 2015 TCM Classic Film Festival on March 26, 2015, in Los Angeles.

Weekend Movie Selections

Toni Erdman Writer-director Maren Ade’s stun gun of a comedy-drama is a bizarre, brilliant, and madly original story about an aging German hippie man-child and amateur comedian who pulls every trick in his book to reconnect with his estranged yuppie daughter , who works in Romania as a corporate consultant hired by struggling companies to lay off workers by the hundreds. He’s retired and lonely, so he pops up in her life unannounced – and in disguise as a life coach to CEOs.