Reel WednesdaysThe Company of Strangers

The Company of Strangers is one of the most successful features in NFB history. It’s fiction, but told with the unscripted honesty of a documentary, charming, cheerful and poignant.
A bus breaks down in the wilderness. Eight women, average age 71, are stranded at a deserted farmhouse. They have only their wits, memories and some roasted frog legs to sustain them. Through the long wait the women share their inner most thoughts and feelings, turning the crisis into a magical occasion full of humour and spirit.