Quote:
"Give this script, improvised from ideas by the late Gloria Demers, to any Hollywood executive, and the reaction would be, 'So! Where's the story?' [...] Only the National Film Board's excellent 'alternative drama' division would have been able to finance such a film, a film that reminds us that movies can entertain us with real albeit unremarkable lives."
-- Jay Scott

Source:
Scott, Jay. "Film review: The Company of Strangers." Review of The Company of Strangers. Globe and Mail, September 21, 1990.