MARGARET'S MUSEUM / LE MUSE DE MARGARET (BILINGUAL)

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• Release Year: 1995
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Margaret MacNeil doesn't mind being called a 'snot-nosed whore' even if it isn't true. She likes being an outcast – swearing like a man, shocking people, making it clear she isn't about to become a coal-miner's wife. She's already lost her father and a brother to the mines and wants nothing further to do with them. One day, Neil Currie staggers into her life, drunk, six foot six, gentle, irresistible giant of a man. Margaret takes Neil home, falls in love with him and reveals herself as the loving gentle creature she always was and Neil promises to stay out of the mines. Margaret's younger brother, Jimmy, likes the new addition to the family, but he's more interested in his own sexual exploits with the mine manager's daughter. He's trying to get a job at the mine as well, but his Uncle Angus tries to keep him out of the tunnels. They are a happy couple until Neil loses his job washing dishes in a Chinese restaurant and their money runs out. Like it or not, the mines are the only alternative. When tragedy finally strikes, Margaret surprises the town with a strange act of defience.; ; Glace Bay will never be the same again.
• Cast: Helena Bonham Carter; Clive Russell; Craig Olejnik; Kate Nelligan; Kenneth Welsh; Andrea Morris; Peter Boretski; Barrie Dunn; Norma Dell'Agnese; Glenn Wadman; Elizabeth Richardson; Ida Donovan; Gordon Joe; Wayne Reynolds; Murdoch MacDonald; Yow Wah Chee; Terry O'Keefe; Liam Hussey; Mary Alvena Poole; Carol Kennedy; Bruce MacLeod; Peter MacLean; Malcolm 'Maxi' MacNeil; Alec MacDougall; Alan MacLeod; Emma Fahey; Sam White; Amy Jo Lamb; Ian Mugford; Billy Fraser; David B. Lamb; Kyle MacNeil; Stewart MacNeil; Jenipher Roland; Aaron Schneider; Paul Young; Sean Hewitt; Matt Zimmerman; Peter Marinker; Mort Ransen; Sheldon Currie; Gerald Wexler
• Director: Mort Ransen
• Runtime: 1:54
• Company: Seville Pictures
• Media Format: Movie