The Exchange

The Exchange is a 2021 internationally co-produced comedy-drama film directed by Dan Mazer from a screenplay by Tim Long. It stars Ed Oxenbould, Avan Jogia and Justin Hartley. The film follows the events triggered by outcast student Tim Long entering an exchange program hoping to get a sophisticated kindred spirit sent from France but instead ending up with more than he bargained for when the outgoing Stéphane turns up in his quiet Canadian town. It was released in the United States and Canada on July 30, 2021, by Elevation Pictures and Quiver Distribution. Plot Winter 1986, a small Canadian town called Hobart which is still suffering the effects of financial recession. Tim, a student with pretensions of sophistication, enters a student exchange program in hopes the French student will share his love of the cultured things in life. Something he feels is sorely lacking in his provincial classmates. To his dismay the exchangee, Stéphane, is not what he expected. Outgoing, fashion conscious, with a healthy appetite for sex and little interest in "culture". Stéphane is initially able to quickly charm those around him like teaching assistant Diane. Even her domineering boyfriend Gary Rothbauer, school gym teacher and local part-time policeman, initially takes to Stéphane. Partly because he laughed at his joke but also due to his soccer skills.