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Cardinals (2017)

Cardinals poster
Directed by
Grayson Moore
Genre
thriller film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 24m
Rated
R
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 20 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman is released from prison after killing a coworker in a drunk driving accident. She is confronted by the son of the man she killed, who demands answers about what happened.

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What happens

Cardinals is a 2017 Canadian thriller film directed by Grayson Moore and Aidan Shipley. The film stars Sheila McCarthy as Valerie Walker, a woman who has just recently been released from prison after killing a coworker in a drunk driving incident, when Mark (Noah Reid), the son of the man she killed, shows up on her doorstep demanding answers of his own. Cardinals, part of Telefilm Canada's Micro-Budget Production Program, was filmed in Stratford, Kitchener, and Barrie, Ontario. The film premiered in the Discovery section at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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