I'll Never Get to Heaven (1993)

Name: I'll Never Get to Heaven
Released: 1993-01-31

Country: Canada
Rating: 7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere: IMDb

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How it feels

In 1960s Toronto, a thirteen year old girl named Margaret deals with her father leaving. She and her mother move in with her grandparents, where her mother starts a new relationship and Margaret makes a friend who questions the strict Catholic rules she grew up with.

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What happens

I'll Never Get to Heaven is a Canadian comedy-drama television film, directed by Stefan Scaini and released in 1993. Set in Toronto in the 1960s, the film stars Amy Stewart as Margaret, a 13-year-old girl whose life changes radically when her father abandons the family. She and her mother Cassie (Wendy Crewson) move back in with Margaret's grandparents John (Sean McCann) and Trea (Patricia Gage), where Cassie begins a new romance with widowed photographer Eric (Victor Garber), while Margaret befriends Betty (Aidan Pendleton), a girl whose rebellious attitude toward the nuns at their Catholic school challenges Margaret's adherence to the strict religious values she was raised with. The cast also includes Susan Wright as Betty's eccentric aunt and caretaker Dora, as well as Samantha Follows, Marc Marut, Dylan Neal, Illya Woloshyn and Sheila Heti in supporting roles. The film drew on aspects of the real-life childhood of screenwriter Kathleen M. Turner, but she stressed that it was not meant to be understood as autobiographical. It aired on January 31, 1993, on CBC Television. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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