Underplayed Gems

Marine Life (2000)

Marine Life poster
Directed by
Anne Wheeler
Genre
drama film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 35m
Rating
4.0 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A jazz singer deals with her fading career and strained ties to her teenage daughter and her boyfriend. The story follows her struggles and the complicated family dynamics that come with them.

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What happens

Marine Life is a Canadian drama film, directed by Anne Wheeler and released in 2000. Based on the short story collection of the same name by Linda Svendsen, the film stars Cybill Shepherd as June, a jazz singer coping with feelings of failure in her career and her complicated relationships with her teenage daughter Adele (Alexandra Purvis) and her boyfriend Robert (Peter Outerbridge). Shepherd agreed to take the role in part because she had been a fan of Wheeler's previous film Better Than Chocolate. The film's cast also includes Gabrielle Miller, Michael Hogan and Tyler Labine. The film premiered at the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival. The film received two Genie Award nominations at the 22nd Genie Awards in 2002, for Best Actor (Outerbridge) and Best Sound Editing (Gael MacLean, Jim Harrington, Patrick Haskill, Michael Keeping and Gina Mueller). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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