The Exchange is a 2021 internationally co-produced[1] comedy-drama film directed by Dan Mazer from a screenplay by Tim Long.

The film follows the events triggered by outcast student Tim Long entering an exchange program hoping to get a sophisticated kindred spirit sent from France but instead ending up with more than he bargained for when the outgoing Stéphane turns up in his quiet Canadian town.

Even her domineering boyfriend Gary Rothbauer, school gym teacher and local part-time policeman, initially takes to Stéphane.

Passing on the other side of the street with Tim, Stéphane spots what is about to happen and rushes to sweep Diane off her feet out of danger.

Stéphane even manages to give sage advice to Tim's father about sharing his mounting business woes with his wife.

Gary uses the red carding as pretext to denigrate the benched player leading to a heated outpouring against the town and its White Squirrel mascot from Stéphane.

Caught very publicly in a lie and crime, Gary makes a run for it but is quickly clotheslined by Brenda's brother and arrested.

A reversal of the film's plot sees Tim has traveled to France as an exchange student to be among Stéphane's friends in Paris at the end.

In April 2019, it was announced Ed Oxenbould, Avan Jogia and Justin Hartley had joined the cast of the film, with Dan Mazer directing from a screenplay by Tim Long.

[3] The film is set in the fictional town of Hobart, Ontario, a thinly-disguised version of Long's hometown of Exeter.