Biography: Alberta Watson |
Prolific Canadian actress Alberta Watson is best known for her work in off-center independent films and the syndicated TV series La Femme Nikita. Born and raised in Toronto, Watson began performing in local theater productions as a teenager. After... more
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Length: 120min
Mostly Martha's Sandra Nettelbeck directs Ashley Judd from her own script in this drama concerning a teacher and student who bond over their experiences of severe depression. ER's Goran Visnjic co-stars in this Little Film Co. production. ~ Jeremy...
Tags: Coming-of-Age Drama Period Film
Length: 96min
Gail Harvey's Some Things That Stay stars Katie Boland as a teenager whose adolescence is complicated by her bohemian family and their resistance to the cultural mores of Eisenhower-era America. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
Cast: Mercedes Ruehl
Tags: Docudrama Courtroom Drama Prison Film Drama Crime
Length: 86min
Based on a true story, the made-for-cable Guilt by Association was the first "original" movie to be presented by the Court TV network. Mercedes Ruehl stars as Susan Walker, a widowed nurse with two kids and a disreputable boyfriend named Russell (Alex...
Cast: Graham Greene Colm Meaney Lynn Stalmaster
Tags: Drama Slice of Life
Length: 95min
For its quiet, low-key story, A Lobster Tale travels into a sphere of domestic life rarely glimpsed in contemporary cinema - that of small-town Americana. Colm Meaney stars as Cody Brewer, a Maine lobsterman who sinks into an economic mire when faced...
Cast: Donal Logue
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: min
Indie director Michael Mabbott follows his debut effort, The Life and Times of Guy Terrifico, with a sophomore feature, the quirky underdog comedy-drama Citizen Duane. Douglas Smith plays Duane Balfour, one of the sons in a family known for fighting...
Cast: Lynn Redgrave Kirsten Dunst
Tags: Period Film Romantic Mystery Mystery Thriller Romance
Length: 99min
On a remote island in Nova Scotia, teenaged Claire (Julia Brendler) slowly befriends Celia (Lynn Redgrave), an eccentric novelist who is working on a manuscript. The manuscript, which is set a half-century ago, tells the story of Silly (Kirsten...
Cast: Adam Beach Don McKellar
Tags: Romance Comedy Romantic Comedy
Length: 95min
Toronto-based indie filmmaker Helen Lee spins this frothy omantic comedy about an ersatz glamour girl who unexpectedly gets what she wants. Concealing her working-class upbringing, young, ambitious Alessa Woo (Sook-Yin Lee) poses as a high-rolling...
Cast: Sam Shepard
Tags: Rural Drama Drama
Length: 95min
The made-for-cable drama After the Harvest was based on Martha Ostenso's 1927 novel -Wild Geese, and was first broadcast in Canada under that title on March 4, 2001. Sam Shepard heads the cast as ill-tempered Canadian farmer Caleb Gare, who...
Cast: Melanie Griffith Alberta Watson Brad Renfro Dominique Swain
Tags: Melodrama Teen Movie Drama
Length: 91min
Cat Storm (Dominique Swain) is a bored high school girl in New York City who follows her petulant, rich friends from one coming-of-age adventure to another. They experiment with cruelty, rudeness, brazenness, and idiocy before moving onto sex and...
Length: 97min
In this offbeat thriller, Halley Fischer (Katja Riemann) is a schoolteacher at an elementary school in Winnipeg where children have been disappearing under mysterious circumstances. Francis (Zachary Bennett) is a single father and classical pianist...
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