Better Off in Bed is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Reginald Harkema and released in 2004."Harkema's road rockumentary inspired by the Rolling Stones". Edmonton Journal, July 22, 2005. The film documents The New Pornographers on their 2002 concert tour of Western Canada, focusing on their interpersonal relationships with each other and opening act The Gay, whose members included Coco Culbertson and Sara Lapsley, the girlfriends of New Pornographers Todd Fancey and Kurt Dahle.
The film premiered in the Borsos Competition at the 2004 Whistler Film Festival,David Spaner, "The 5 movies you shouldn't miss in Whistler: Critic David Spaner offers up his fest picks". The Province, December 2, 2004. and it was subsequently screened at the Kingston Canadian Film Festival in 2005.Sarah Crosbie, "Kingston Canadian Film Festival schedule". Kingston Whig-Standard, March 5, 2005. However, the New Pornographers were reportedly uncomfortable with the fact that the film probed their personal lives rather than concentrating solely on the tour itself, and their lawyers intervened to prevent wider commercial release.Guy Dixon, "An indie film's radical chic". The Globe and Mail, December 16, 2006.
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