 It also won the Best Canadian Feature Film award at the 1991 Toronto International Film Festival; Egoyan accepted the award and trophy, but declined the $25,000 cheque that came with it, and instead donated the money to John Pozer, who had been the runner-up with his film "The Grocer's Wife".TIFF later ranked the film tenth place in its 1990s run of the Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time.