Snow Job (1974) User Reviews

The first IMAX film I saw. I was in awe!

[fester-5 · 8/10 · 20 January 2002]

A fun short with a real Canadian feel. About an accident-prone school bus driver and her school principal. The big screen fun was helped along with wild rides on snowy roads and big snowplows. Written by Don Harron (Charlie Farquharson from Hee Haw). He has a cameo in it also. Staring Barbara Hamilton and Eric House.

The feeling was unanimous

[Varlaam · 12 October 2002]

If I remember correctly, our class was escorted to see this film at the Ontario Place Cinesphere on the big IMAX screen when it was brand new. If the 1974 date is on the money, then that would have been our Grade 8 class.

Virtually every kid in that class caught the schoolbus every morning at 8 a.m., so a comedy about a bus full of Canadian schoolkids stuck in the snow was hitting pretty close to home.

I guess that's why we all had the same feeling about this film: We agreed it was hilarious.

A lot of snow has come and gone since then, and my memories of it now are glimpsed through a frosted windowpane, but all the recollections are fond ones.

A foreshadowing of Bob & Doug Mackenzie?

[laurie_willberg · 10/10 · 25 December 2014]

I remember watching this film at the Ontario Place IMAX Theatre in 1974 with a Film Arts class. As I recall the school principal is unable to get his car out of his driveway because after shoveling out the base of his driveway the snowplow makes another pass and fills it back in again! If you live in Ontario I can guarantee this HAS happened to you. But writer Don Harron captures the karmic revenge we have all dreamed of: the bus driver and the principal are forced by circumstances to "borrow" the snow plow while the driver is out relieving himself behind a snowbank. At some point the bus driver and principal find themselves traversing a frozen lake and take shelter in an ice-fishing hut. The rather tipsy fisherman, actor Jack Duffy (whose name doesn't appear in the credits listed here) invites them to "pull up a beer!" Don Harron masterfully packs a lot of gags into a mere 17 minutes.