Daniela Akerblom Movies
- 2000
A girl in desperate need of guidance looks for it in all the wrong places in this streetwise drama from Canada. Jude (Liane Balaban) is a bright but troubled teenager growing up in a dysfunctional home in Montreal. Jude became involved with a drug dealer and, in an ill-advised moment, decided to make off with his bankroll. Now she's looking for refuge on the streets, seeking advice from a motley collection of friends living along the city's margins: the huge but good hearted Big Al; Georgie, a hustler whose ambitions overwhelm his tiny body; Clarence (Raymond Cloutier), a kind man with a disturbing sexual attraction to children; and Gabriel, a fellow teenager battling a serious infection she got from a bad tattoo. Nicholas Campbell appears in a supporting role as Jude's father; Campbell and Liane Balaban also played father and daughter in the earlier film New Waterford Girl. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Liane Balaban, Nicholas Campbell, (more)
This Canadian movie about a boy and his dog during the early 1920s is set in the countryside southeast of Montreal. Twelve-year-old Sam MacKenzie (Tod Fennell) is the son of an Arctic explorer who vanished in the tundra. His mother Althea (Bronwen Booth) has remarried, but Sam isn't as close to his stepfather, country doc Asa Robinson (Henry Czerny), as he is to the wolf-like dog Kayla. Sam builds a dog sled to enter a race with Kayla, but he soon is stunned to learn a request was made to have local authorities kill Kayla. Peter Behrens' screenplay is based on the novel by Elizabeth Van Steenwik. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Tod Fennell, Henry Czerny, (more)
This goofy low-budget comedy follows a group of maverick misanthropes as they try to save the struggling title school from financial ruin. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jim Varney, Corey Haim, (more)
