Bordertown Café (1992)
- Original title
- Bordertown Cafe
- Directed by
- Norma Bailey
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Rating
- 9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A divorced woman runs a small cafe in a rural Alberta border town. Her quiet life gets disrupted when her teenage son has a chance to move to the United States to live with his father.
groundedintimateemotionallow-keyfamily dramabittersweetthoughtfulunderstated
What happens
Bordertown Café is a 1992 Canadian drama film produced and directed by Norma Bailey and written by Kelly Rebar, based on her 1987 play of the same name. The film stars Janet Wright and Susan Hogan. Set in Alberta, Bordertown Café was filmed outside of Warren, Manitoba. Hogan plays Marlene, the divorced owner of a small café in a rural Alberta town near the Canada–United States border, whose life is turned upside down when her son Jimmy (Gordon Michael Woolvett) is offered the opportunity to go live with his father and his father's new wife in the States. Wright plays Maxine, Marlene's mother and Jimmy's grandmother. She won the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role at the 13th Genie Awards ceremony. Rebar was also nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay, and Lara Mazur was nominated for Best Editing. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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