Quote:
"Sandy Wilson's debut feature film has emerged as something of an English-Canadian classic, operating simultaneously as a deeply personal film and as a metaphor for the inferiority complex of our national psyche."
-- Wyndham Wise

Source:
Wise, Wyndham, ed. Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. (s.v. 'My American Cousin')