Malarek is a Canadian drama film, directed by Roger Cardinal and released in 1988.
[2] The film's plot centres on Malarek, as a newly hired junior reporter in Montreal, Quebec, investigating unsafe and inhumane conditions in the province's juvenile detention system, interspersed with flashbacks to Malarek's own troubled youth when he spent some time in the very same system.
[3] The cast also includes Ross Hull as the young Malarek in the flashback scenes, as well as Kerrie Keane, Al Waxman, Daniel Pilon, Susan Glover, Bruce Ramsay, Vittorio Rossi, Michael Sarrazin and Walter Massey.
The film premiered in limited engagement in December 1988, before going into wider commercial release in March 1989.
[5] The film's producers subsequently created the television drama series Urban Angel, which was also based in part on Malarek's life but centred on a renamed and partially fictionalized character.