The words ‘small-town family business’ tend to conjure up a twee image. Convenience stores and manual trades, homely restaurants and pet shops. However, for Shawney Cohen, the family business was a strip club. When he was six years old, his father bought a bar near Toronto and turned it into a strip club called The Manor with an adjoining 32-room hotel. It was a bold move made following a streak of bad luck; a last-ditch attempt to secure the quality of life he had imagined for himself. The family would never be the same again.

In his debut feature-length film, Cohen looks at the impact of the decision 30 years on. His 400-pound father Roger is preparing for stomach-reduction surgery, his 85-pound mother Brenda is struggling with anorexia, and his brother Sammy is preparing to follow in h

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