John N. Smith

Random Passage (2002)

Cast: Colm Meaney Jessica Paré John N. Smith   

Tags: Drama Ensemble Film 

Length: 360min

A young Irish servant girl travels to Newfoundland in an attempt to build a new life for herself and her infant daughter in director John. M. Smith's Gemini Award-winning miniseries. Mary Keane (Aoife McMahon) is a humble servant who has been raped...

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A Cool, Dry Place (1999)

Cast: Vince Vaughn Devon Sawa Joey Lauren Adams Monica Potter Siobhan Fallon   

Tags: Family Drama Drama 

Length: 120min

Vince Vaughn stars in this drama about a single father trying to balance career ambitions against personal responsibilities. In A Cool Dry Place, Vaughn plays Russell, a lawyer in a small town in Kansas who has been raising his five-year-old son...

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The Boys of St. Vincent (1991)

Cast: Henry Czerny   

Tags: Drama Docudrama 

Length: 186min

The great achievement of The Boys of St. Vincent is not that it deals with the controversial subject of pedophilia among Catholic clergy, but that it deals with that subject so honestly, without resorting to melodramatics. At the core of this powerful...

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Dieppe (1993)

Cast: Peter Donat Victor Garber Robert Joy John Neville   

Tags: War Drama Combat Films War 

Length: 100min

Originally broadcast in Canada, this war drama tells the true story of how over 900 Canadian soldiers bravely sacrificed their lives in an attempt and take the French coastal town of Dieppe back from the Nazis. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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Dangerous Minds (1995)

Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer Jerry Bruckheimer George Dzundza Courtney Vance Don Simpson Bruklin Harris   

Tags: Urban Drama Drama Biopic 

Length: 99min

In this drama, a school teacher discovers that it takes more than the ABCs to get through to a class of "uneducatable" kids. When Lou Anne Johnson (Michelle Pfeiffer), a nine-year veteran of the Marine Corps with a degree in education, begins a new...

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Welcome to Canada (1989)

Length: 90min

This documentary-style drama pictures what would have happened if the true incident it is based upon had been handled differently. In the true incident, a number of Sri Lankan refugees were set aswim off the coast of Newfoundland, and were immediately...

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Sitting in Limbo (1986)

Tags: Drama 

Length: 96min

The National Film Board of Canada was one of the guiding forces behind Sitting in Limbo. Fabian Gibbs plays a black Montreal college student forced to leave school when his girlfriend Pat Dillon becomes pregnant. Gibbs resents this interruption in his...

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Train of Dreams (1987)

Cast: Fred Ward   

Tags: Drama Coming-of-Age Juvenile Delinquency Film 

Length: 89min

Tony Abruzzi (Jason St. Amour) is a 17-year-old punk from Montreal headed for trouble in this documentary-styled drama. Running with gangs, Tony ditches school and takes to petty theft to buy alcohol and soft drugs, and his concerned mother (Marcella...

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The Masculine Mystique (1984)

Tags: Gender Issues Culture & Society 

Length: 87min

For those seeking a break from all those feminist documentaries in which women sit around discussing the iniquities of a male-dominated world, we submit for your approval the Canadian The Masculine Mystique. Veteran Scottish-born filmmaker Giles...

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