Biography: Jackie Burroughs |

Actress Jackie Burroughs has won just about every conceivable show business award in her native Canada. With a range extending from Shakespeare to the avant-garde, Burroughs has also played just about every role available to an actress, from blushing... more
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Cast: Crispin Glover R. Lee Ermey   
Tags: Natural Horror Horror 
Length: 100min
A young man uses his vermin pals to exact revenge upon the people who've domineered his life in this remake of the 1971 cult classic. Starring Crispin Glover in the role originated by Bruce Davison, Willard concerns the mundane, repressed existence of...

Cast: Graham Greene Jessica Paré Léa Pool Mischa Barton Piper Perabo   
Tags: Coming-of-Age Romance Drama Gay & Lesbian Films Romantic Drama 
Length: 102min
Three schoolgirls learn about the joys, sorrows, and varieties of love in this drama based on the novel -The Wives of Bath by Susan Swan. Mary (Mischa Barton) is a quiet girl who is still recovering from the death of her mother. Mary's father and new...

Length: 95min
Maggie (Isabelle Mejias) is an ordinary Canadian girl who has signed on to work in a Catholic mission in modern-day Africa. She is comes to the job amply supplied with enthusiasm and ignorance, and manages to consistently do things which show her lack...

Cast: Gordon Pinsent   
Tags: Drama Psychological Drama 
Length: 98min
Veteran Canadian actor Gordon Pinsent handled the direction of John and the Missus. And who with better right? Pinsent also wrote the novel upon which his screenplay was based. John Munn (Pinsent) is a Newfoundland miner whose town faces extermination...

Tags: Biopic Feminist Film Psychological Drama Drama 
Length: 91min
In this portentous docudrama, Jackie Burroughs stars as Maryse Holder, the ill-fated feminist author who met an untimely death in Acapulco. Her attitude of cultural and racial condescension toward Mexican men was to regard them as nothing more than...

Cast: Margaret Tyzack   
Tags: Anti-War Film War Family Drama Drama War Drama Period Film 
Length: 120min
Set in the years before World War I, this film is about Robert, a young man growing up in a wealthy family in Toronto who is burdened by a distant, cool mother and a father dedicated to duty, both highly conservative people. When Robert loses his...

Cast: Richard Farnsworth   
Tags: Period Film Biopic Modern Western Crime Drama Drama 
Length: 90min
Francis Ford Coppola protégé Phillip Borsos directs this elegiac, low-key tale about real-life bandit Bill Miner that has become a classic of Canadian cinema. Having been released from jail in 1901 following a 33-year prison sentence for robbing...

Cast: Harold Ramis Eugene Levy Richard Romanus Don Francks John Candy Ivan Reitman Elmer Bernstein John Vernon 
Tags: Fantasy Adventure Science Fiction Sci-Fi Adventure 
Length: 95min
Inspired by stories from the fantasy graphics magazine Heavy Metal, this five-part animated feature combines the talents of hundreds of artists and animators from 17 different countries. A glowing green orb called Loc-Nar that contains the sum total...

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