The Globe and Mail

Hello Alliance Films? It's the PMO's office calling. Prime Minister Stephen Harper is a huge hockey fan so his office placed a call to the Toronto-based distributor behind the hockey-themed, rom-com Breakaway, asking that he be added to the dinner guest list Friday celebrating the film. Harper will be hobnobbing at an undisclosed Toronto hotel restaurant with the cast of Bollywood-influenced Breakaway (yes, there are exuberant musical numbers on ice) which includes Rob Lowe, funny guy Russell Peters, and the relatively unknown actor Vinay Virmani (who also penned the script). What's unclear is whether Harper will get to jam with the musicians, Bollywood hero Akshay Kumar and hip-hop star Drake, who make cameos in the film. So far no word, though, on whether the PM plans to ask for a spot at the table of another Canadian-made hockey film, called Goon, also debuting at TIFF.