Antiholiday

Originally entitled Hellcab Does Christmas and marketed as a hip antiholiday holiday show, Will Kern's incredibly black comedy about a day in the life of a poor beleaguered cab driver was never, strictly speaking, a holiday show.

The idea was to celebrate Buy Nothing Day, an antiholiday invented by the Vancouver-based Media Foundation in the early 90s that takes place on what's traditionally one of the busiest shopping days of the year. "