Quote:
"[Norma] Bailey's choice to include in the film [Bordertown Café] Jimmy's trip south of the border is clearly motivated by film's putative need for movement, but it essentially reasserts the theme of the play, for, while spending time with his father, the cinematic Jimmy comes to the very same realization as his theatrical counterpart. He belongs at the café, and the efforts of the (filmic) outsider to break the unity (of space) of the (dramatic) family ultimately fails. The play, like the characters, comes to recognize the benefits of cinematic travel but in the end strengthens the value of stasis."
-- André Loiselle

Source:
Loiselle, André. Stage-Bound: Feature Film Adaptations of Canadian and Québécois Drama. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. (p. 122)