The Surrogate is a 1984

1984 in film

-Events:* The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name.* Tri-Star Pictures, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS, releases its first film....

 Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 thriller film starring Art Hindle

Art Hindle

Arthur Hindle is a Canadian actor and director.Hindle was born in Halifax. His family moved to Toronto while he was a child. Although shy as a youngster, he grew to be a rebellious and independent teenager...

, Carole Laure

Carole Laure

Carole Laure is an actress and singer from the province of Quebec in Canada.-Career:Throughout most of her career, Carole Laure primarily collaborated with Anglophone singer, songwriter, producer, and director Lewis Furey, whom she met in 1977 and who later became her husband...

, Shannon Tweed

Shannon Tweed

Shannon Lee Tweed is a Canadian actress and model. One of the most successful actresses of mainstream erotica, she is identified with the genre of the erotic thriller...

, and Jackie Burroughs

Jackie Burroughs

Jacqueline "Jackie" Burroughs was an English-born Canadian actress.-Life and career:Born in Lancashire, England, Burroughs acted in live theatre at Ontario's Stratford Festival...

. The film was written

Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

 by Don Carmody

Don Carmody

Don Carmody has been producing films for nearly 40 years. He was vice-president of production for Canada’s Cinepix , where he co-produced David Cronenberg’s early shockers THEY CAME FROM WITHIN and RABID as well as the popular comedy MEATBALLS.Starting his own production company in 1980, Carmody...

 and Robert Geoffrion, produced

Film producer

A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

 by Don Carmody

Don Carmody

Don Carmody has been producing films for nearly 40 years. He was vice-president of production for Canada’s Cinepix , where he co-produced David Cronenberg’s early shockers THEY CAME FROM WITHIN and RABID as well as the popular comedy MEATBALLS.Starting his own production company in 1980, Carmody...

 and John Dunning

John Dunning

John Dunning may refer to:* John Dunning , American writer of detective fiction* John Dunning * John Harry Dunning , British economist* John Dunning , American film editor...

, executively produced

Executive producer

An executive producer is a producer who is not involved in any technical aspects of the film making or music process, but who is still responsible for the overall production...

 by André Fleury and André Link and directed

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

 by Don Carmody

Don Carmody

Don Carmody has been producing films for nearly 40 years. He was vice-president of production for Canada’s Cinepix , where he co-produced David Cronenberg’s early shockers THEY CAME FROM WITHIN and RABID as well as the popular comedy MEATBALLS.Starting his own production company in 1980, Carmody...

. The film also features Jim Bailey

Jim Bailey (entertainer)

James William Bailey is an American singer, film, television and stage actor, and female impersonator.-Early years:...

, Michael Ironside

Michael Ironside

Michael Ironside is a Canadian-born actor. He has also worked as a voice actor, producer, film director, and screenwriter in movie and television series in various Canadian and American productions. He is best known for playing villains and "tough guy" heroes, though he has also portrayed...

, Marilyn Lightstone, Jonathan Welsh

Jonathan Welsh

Jonathan Welsh was a veteran Canadian actor of stage, television and film, best known for his principal roles in Canadian television series, notably the 1986–1989 adventure comedy Adderly and the 1989–1994 journalism drama E.N.G.On E.N.G., Welsh portrayed Eric "Mac" MacFarlane, one of the first...

, Tony Scott

Tony Scott

Anthony D. L. "Tony" Scott is an English film director. His films include Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop II, The Last Boy Scout, True Romance, Crimson Tide, Enemy of the State, Spy Game, Man on Fire, Déjà Vu, The Taking of Pelham 123, and Unstoppable...

, Mark Burns

Mark Burns

Mark Burns was an English film and television actor.Burns was born in Bromsgrove in the county of Worcestershire and educated at Ampleforth College, North Yorkshire...

 and Vlasta Vrana

Vlasta Vrana

Vlasta Vrána is a Canadian actor of Czech descent, known for playing Jack Richards in A Year in the Death of Jack Richards. His surname means "crow" in Czech and several other Slavic languages.-Career:...

. The music was composed by Daniel Lanois

Daniel Lanois

Daniel Lanois born September 19, 1951 in Hull, Quebec) is a Canadian record producer, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. He has released a number of albums of his own work and has produced albums for a wide variety of artists, including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris, Willie...

, the cinematography

Cinematography

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 was done by François Protat, and the editing

Editing

Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information through the processes of correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications performed with an intention of producing a correct, consistent, accurate, and complete...

 was done by Rit Wallis.

The film was released 2 November 1984 through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).

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