Patch Town is a 2015 Canadian holiday musical dark fantasy film starring Rob Ramsay, Julian Richings, Zoie Palmer, Suresh John, Stephanie Pitsiladis and Kenneth "Ken" Hall. The plot is set near a fictional Soviet-style factory called Patch Enterprises producing children's toys, run by a bitter and lonely executive officer named Yuri (Richings). When a factory employee named Jon (Ramsay) discovers a hidden secret about his past, he goes on a quest to Toronto, trying to establish a real family for himself while also reconnecting with his now-adult "mother" (the woman who owned him as a child).
Both a critique of 1980s consumer capitalism and also a scathing portrayal of authoritarian communism, Patch Town is a mixed bag and was based on a short film by the same title.
Patch Town provides examples of the following tropes:
- Ambiguously Gay: Kenny (towards Yuri).
- A gay couple holds hands in a toy store.
- An Asskicking Christmas: The final act is AWESOME and features a full-scale rebellion against an evil toy factory.
- Big Bad: Yuri, averted when he reveals that he is lonely and just wants his own family. Jon believes he can fix Yuri and straps him into an electroshock therapy machine for "re-education". Poor Yuri.
- Big Fun: Jon, the morbidly obese, goofy and cute guy who really does closely resemble a Cabbage Patch doll.
- Commie Land: Patch Enterprises and its numerous apartment blocs, all guarded by spies and authoritarian soldiers.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Yuri. And by the way, he also sings about it.
- Depraved Dwarf: Kenny (played by comedian Kenneth "Ken" Hall) is a little person who enjoys "the perfect kidnapping gloves", frequenting a local brothel and attacking people. According to him, he has a standard: "I draw the line at eating kids". Trope is later averted when Kenny defects from Yuri and finds employment through a Toronto job agency, going on a date with a surly-looking employment counsellor.
- G-Rated Drug: Jon gets high on foil-wrapped candy mints. A trippy sitar song plays while Sly (Suresh John) stares in shock at Jon drooling, giggling hysterically and then proceeding to lean out one side of the van while he hollers wildly. The fact that Sly decorated the van's interior to look like a hippie's hangout doesn't help.
