There is no ‘best thing’ about having terminal cancer, but for forty-year-old Joe, being welcomed back into his childhood home, feeling the warmth and support of his sister and her husband and observing his young niece’s blossoming emotional maturity seem to give new meaning to a life he feels he had wasted. With unexpected humour, stark realism and quiet insight, Under The Weather is an uplifting meditation on one man’s graceful surrender to the inevitable and the palpable impact his passing has on those he leaves behind.
Burt
A blood feud divides a small town in rural Newfoundland.
Jack
When Jack begins to forget, he visits Keystone, an organization with an unlikely mandate: making your most important memories truly unforgettable.
Ricky's Father
One wild and tumultuous summer in the life of young Jude Traynor as he attempts to navigate his way through a life of delinquency and petty crime.
Writer
In 1969, a visiting geologist from Newfoundland arouses scandal in a small Irish village when he romances a local girl who’s destined for the convent.
Himself
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, is North America's most easterly landfall. For half a millennium, its perfect harbour has provided a safe refuge in the middle of the treacherous North Atlantic. For 300 years of its history it was an actual crime to try and settle--Newfoundland was the private preserve of British fishing merchants. But people stayed, despite the colonial masters, despite the lack of law and order, despite hellish weather and raging seas. And the city grew--lurching through centuries of crisis, disaster, privation. For filmmaker Rosemary House, "This is still a hard rock land, a dirty old town at the back of beyond. And yet the St. John's townie is so proud, you'd swear we lived in Paris." In this documentary, she explores her city with the help of six locals, Mary Walsh, Andy Jones, Anita Best, Brian Hennessey, Ed Riche, Des Walsh, writers and performers all. (Source: National Film Board)
Story
La primera película, The Boys of St. Vincent, abarca el abuso sexual y físico de un número de huérfanos de hermanos encabezados por el hermano Peter Lavin (Henry Czerny). La segunda película, The Boys of St. Vincent: 15 años después, se refiere al juicio de los Hermanos.
Writer
La primera película, The Boys of St. Vincent, abarca el abuso sexual y físico de un número de huérfanos de hermanos encabezados por el hermano Peter Lavin (Henry Czerny). La segunda película, The Boys of St. Vincent: 15 años después, se refiere al juicio de los Hermanos.
Writer
Dramatización que sigue la lucha desesperada de jóvenes residentes de un orfanato católico para escapar de la pesadilla del abuso físico y sexual. Sus gritos de ayuda son desatendidos, aunque un portero y un policía tratarán de descubrir la verdad y poner fin al sufrimiento. Por muchos años, funcionarios de la Iglesia, la policía y altos funcionarios del gobierno conspiran para frenar a la justicia y silenciarla. Para las víctimas, sólo hay vergüenza y amargura. La segunda parte del film retoma la historia 15 años después. Por una investigación, se vuelve a abrir el caso. Ahora, las víctimas tienen que enfrentarse cara a cara con sus agresores y revivir el pasado.
