Production has wrapped in Toronto on Northbound, an indie road trip film from Scottish director William Scoular (Survival Box; pictured left).

The comedy is written by Ashlin Halfnight (The New Look) and completed principal photography on Aug. 10.

Northbound follows an octogenarian who enlists his grandson to help him escape a nursing home and chauffeur him from Arizona to Canada. On the road they pick up a mysterious and dangerous woman and as the miles tick by, love begins to bloom, bullets fly, and the elder man tries to convince his grandson to carry on the family whiskey business.

The film stars Academy Award-nominee Bruce Dern (Nebraska; pictured right), Hunter Parrish (Weeds), Julia Fox (Uncut Gems) and Joanna Cassidy (Blade Runner). Rounding out the cast are Dylan Baker (Law & Order) and Canadians Russell Peters, Academy Award-nominee Graham Greene (The Last of Us) and Walter Borden (Coroner).

Northbound is produced by Scoular and Saad Siddiqui via Gatehouse Productions, Robert Budreau of Lumanity, and Jason Ross Jallet and Andrew Bronfman of Beyond the Frame. Executive producers include Jonathan Bronfman for Beyond the Frame and Wendy La Brier for Gatehouse.

The film was privately financed. There is currently no Canadian or American distributor attached at press time. Hyde Park International is representing world sales outside of the U.S. and Canada.

Scoular has connections to Canada, having taught theatre at Ontario’s St. Andrew’s College, and wrote the screenplay for the Canadian film The Death and Life of Nancy Eaton, based on the bestselling book A Question of Guilt : The Murder of Nancy Eaton, which he co-wrote with Vivian Green.

Photo by Mathieu Seguin, Motion Arc Studios