Mary Lewis
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Biography: Mary Lewis is a Canadian director, actress, animator, producer, and artist. Born in Kampala, Uganda, Mary was raised from the age of 5 in St John's, Newfoundland and divides her time between living in St John's and Toronto. Her films include "When Ponds Freeze Over," "The Sparky Book," "Clothesline Patch," and many others.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Kampala, Uganda
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House of Deadly Lies
Overview: A stay-at-home mom takes in her struggling best friend to help her through a tough time but soon secrets are revealed that could tear her family apart and put everyone in danger.
Genres: Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-03-19
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Grown Up Movie Star
Overview: The story of Ruby, 13, determined to grow up fast after her mother runs away to become a movie star, leaving Ruby with her hopelessly rural father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-20
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Finding Mary March
Overview: This film discusses the search for the last remains of Demasduit (Mary March), one of the last of the Indigenous Beothuk people, set in the Red Indian Lake area of Central Newfoundland. A young girl, Bernadette Buchans, believes that she is related to Mary March. Throughout the whole film, Bernadette and her father Ted are searching for the grave of her mother. An archaeologist/ photographer, Nancy George, accompanies them and she also believes that she has family connections to the Beothuks.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-31
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No Apologies
Overview: As a family of siblings and their spouses gathers at their father's deathbed, old jealousies and new angers and liaisons lead to an inevitable climax.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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When Ponds Freeze Over
Overview: Mary recounts to her daughter Eva the childhood story of when Mary and her father fell through the ice on a frozen pond.
Genres: Drama Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-16
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Relative Happiness
Overview: Plus-sized Lexie Ivy is a feisty B&B owner who desperately needs a date to her sister's wedding.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-13
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Random Passage
Overview: This award winning miniseries traces the difficult passage of young Mary Keane (Aoife McMahon) from servitude in Ireland to the squalor of rough-and-tumble Newfoundland in the early 1800s. Escaping attempted rape and abuse, Mary moves on with her infant daughter to find shelter at a remote fishing station run by Thomas Hutchings (Colm Meaney). In a time and place where life and death are a hair's breadth apart, Mary joins the community's struggle for survival against sickness and starvation. All of the Cape's people are fugitives of one kind or another, but by pulling together through hardships and tragedies, they forge a new life of hope - and even love.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-27
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A Bashful Bigamist
Overview: A wife plots to keep her husband at home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-15
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El alma de los niños
Overview: In the 1944 San Juan earthquake, the parents of a child died who had to go live with an evil aunt but who, finally, succeeded as an actor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-12-06
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Secret Nation
Overview: A graduate history student returns to her native Newfoundland, searching for proof of a conspiracy surrounding the referendum that saw Newfoundland join Canada.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-02
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The Elf
Overview: In this Christmas drama, a boy and his family discover he is an elf.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Come into My Parlour
Overview: Joyously reclaiming "spinsterhood" from its sexist implications, the filmmaker recalls the undauntable great aunt who provided her first driving lesson. Female agency grabs the wheel in a beautifully constructed animated homage.
Genres: Drama Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-31
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Down to the Dirt
Overview: Thirty-year-old Keith Kavanagh (Joel Thomas Hynes) ekes his way through life in a small town. A hard-drinking hooligan, he keeps his ragged collection of poetry a closely guarded secret... as secret as his regret for the shattered relationship with his father. When Keith meets the darkly exotic Natasha (Mylène Savoie), his life is changed forever.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-24
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Subway to Tickle Gut
Overview: One of three films in the “Hall Trilogy” with lots of local talent. Two women with roots in Newfoundland find themselves trapped together on a stalled subway train.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-20
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