Mile End Kicks(2026)

Name: Mile End Kicks
Director: Chandler Levack
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Released: Apr 17, 2026
Cast: Barbie Ferreira, Jay Baruchel, Devon Bostick, Juliette Gariépy, Stanley Simons

XYZ Films

R
Rated R for sexual content/nudity, drug use and language.
1h 45m

Release Date: Apr 17, 2026 | Limited

In 2011, Grace Pine moves to Montreal to write a book about Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill. She's twenty-four, a music critic trying to figure herself out in a French-speaking city where she doesn't speak a word of French. Then she meets Archie and Chevy, two members of an aspiring indie rock band, and finds herself romantically tangled with both of them while taking a job as their publicist. A coming-of-age story about the mess of being young, female, and ambitious in a male-dominated music scene.

Note: Distributed by Sumerian Films

Releases

Original Release | Apr 17, 2026

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Director & Top Cast

Chandler Levack
Director

Barbie Ferreira
Grace Pine

Jay Baruchel
Actor

Devon Bostick
Actor

Juliette Gariépy
Actor

Stanley Simons
Actor

Isaiah Lehtinen

Jesse

Robert Naylor

Hugo

Emily Lê

Penelope

Svetlana Citta

Geneviève Lachance

Hasani Freeman

Emma Cheuk

Concert Goer #1

Audrey Ann Boucher

Claire

Magi Merlin

Chloe

Michaela Snoyer

Charlotte

Other Details

Country of Origin: Canada

Language: English

Summaries

Plot Summary

Mile End Kicks is a 2025 Canadian romantic comedy written and directed by Chandler Levack, her second feature after I Like Movies (2022). The film is based in part on Levack's own young adulthood as a music critic before she moved into filmmaking. Barbie Ferreira stars as Grace Pine, a twenty-four-year-old music critic who relocates to Montreal in 2011 to write a book on Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill and ends up romantically entangled with Archie (Devon Bostick) and Chevy (Stanley Simons), two members of the aspiring indie rock band Bone Patrol, while working as their publicist. The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 4, 2025, and went on to screen in the Borsos Competition at the 2025 Whistler Film Festival and at the Kingston Canadian Film Festival in February and March 2026. Distributed theatrically in Canada by Elevation Pictures (with Entract Films handling Quebec) and in the United States by Sumerian Pictures, with a release in both countries on April 17, 2026. The film holds an 89% rating on Rotten Tomatoes from 19 critics. For audiences drawn to music-nostalgia films, indie sleaze, and messy coming-of-age stories about women finding their voice.

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Mile End Kicks (2025) follows Grace Pine (Barbie Ferreira), a 24-year-old music critic who moves to Montreal's vibrant Mile End neighborhood in 2011 to write a book about Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill. Her plans derail when she falls for two members of indie rock band Bone Patrol—lead singer Chevy (Stanley Simons) and guitarist Archie (Devon Bostick)—and pivots to become their publicist amid dive bars and loft parties.