Based on the book by Brad Smith, the comedy Western centres on the exploits of an ex-con who struggles to stay on the straight and narrow after he returns to his rural hometown.
Luke Kirby, Keith Carradine, Lisa Ray and Rachael Leigh Cook star and New Real Films' Jennifer Jonas served as producer.
Telefilm Canada, the Harold Greenberg Fund, Astral Media's The Movie Network, Corus and OMDC Film Fund financed the film, which plays here on Sept 11. Alliance Films will release All Hat in Canada in spring 2008.
Farlinger previously wrote and directed and Jonas produced The Perfect Son, which premiered at Toronto in 2000.
Myriad's slate here includes Dario Argento's The Mother Of Tears and Death Defying Acts with Guy Pearce and Catherine Zeta-Jones - both of which are playing in the festival - as well as Jack And Jill Vs The World starring Taryn Manning and Freddie Prinze Jr.
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