Jackie Burroughs Movies
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 ingénues to ancient crones. Her film credits have included The Dead Zone (1982), The Grey Fox (1982), and a voice-over stint in... (read more) the legendary animated anthology Heavy Metal (1981), while her TV-series resumé includes the roles of Mrs. Amelia Evans in Anne of Green Gables (1985) and Hetty King in The Road to Avonlea (1990). In 1987, Jackie Burroughs produced, directed, wrote, and starred in Winter Tan, a film based on the feminist writings of Maryse Holder. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Small Town Murder Songs
R 2010
A man at war with his soul and his nature is led into a situation that turns his few friends against him in this psychological drama from Canada. Walter (Peter Stormare)...
First Snow
R 2007
A man desperately tries to keep a strange prediction from coming true in this independent psychological thriller. Jimmy Starks (Guy Pearce) is a traveling salesmen who is...
Deck the Halls
PG 2006
When the spirit of Christmas compels a small-town New Englander to decorate his home with enough lights to make it visible from space, much more is set to be decked than just the...
King's Ransom
PG13 2005
A multi-millionaire plans a scam that goes wrong in a great many ways in this comedy. Malcolm King (Anthony Anderson) is a wildly successful businessman who has gotten...
Fever Pitch
PG13 2005
Nick Hornby's acclaimed memoir about one man's struggle to balance his love of a woman and his love for soccer was the basis of a well-reviewed British film in 1997, and now...
Cavedweller
R 2004
Cavedweller is an adaptation of Dorothy Allison's novel of the same name. Anne Meredith, who also adapted Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina, wrote the script, and...
Snow
2004
This made-for-cable comedy takes place in the three days before Christmas. While training to be successor to Santa Claus at the North Pole, nerdy Nick Snowden loses his favorite...
The Republic of Love
2003
In Deepa Mehta's poignant and heartbreaking romance, Emilia Fox plays Fay, a generally content, thirtysomething Torontoite suffering in a relationship of quiet...
Record Man: The Life and Times of Sam Sniderman
2003
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Willard
PG13 2003
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...
Road to Avonlea: The Movie
G 2003
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A Guy Thing
PG13 2002
A man trying to save his relationship with the woman he loves finds himself sinking into a quicksand of small lies and half-truths in this comedy. Paul (Jason Lee) is a...
Smallville: Hourglass
2001
While volunteering at the local nursing home, Clark Kent (Tom Welling) meets an elderly blind woman named Cassandra (Jackie Burroughs). The old lady lives up to her...
Lost and Delirious
R 2001
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...
Further Tales of the City
2001
Armistead Maupin's colorful saga of life in San Francisco in the 1970s continues in this miniseries, the third following the characters of his serialized novel {-Tales of the...
Have Mercy
1999
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Happy Christmas, Miss King
1998
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Last Night
R 1998
Don McKellar wrote and directed this comedy-drama about the last night of the world, part of the 12-film Arte series of movies about the Millennium. Set in Toronto, Patrick...
More Tales of the City
1998
Armistead Maupin calls the three-story wooden house at 28 Barbary Lane in San Francisco "my homestead, my Tara." He began his portrait of Barbary Lane life during the '70s in a...
An Avonlea Christmas
G 1998
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