When Keanu Reeves , then 24, visited the Toronto International Film Festival in 1988, it represented something of a homecoming for the young Canadian actor who’d spent his teen years in the city before heading off to Los Angeles. Playing the title role in Ron Nyswaner’s The Prince of Philadelphia , Reeves was still relatively new when it came to promoting his work — and himself — as he curled up on a couch at the Four Seasons Hotel, complaining of a cold as he met with the Toronto Star .

Having first made a name for himself in dramatic films like 1986’s River’s Edge , Reeves said he hoped that the comedy/drama Prince , in which he played a kid who kidnaps his own father in order to score a ransom that would help him escape town, would allow him to begin to show his lighter

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