Run Woman Run (2021)

Directed by

Zoe Leigh Hopkins

Genre

comedy, drama

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

6+

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A single mother in a rough patch is diagnosed with diabetes and decides to turn her life around by training for a marathon. Along the way she is guided by the ghost of a famous Indigenous runner.

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What happens

Run Woman Run is a 2021 Canadian drama film, written and directed by Zoe Leigh Hopkins. It stars Dakota Ray Hebert as Beck, a single mother whose life has fallen apart; when she is diagnosed with diabetes, however, she decides to pull her life back together by training to run a marathon, during which she begins to see the ghost of Tom Longboat (Asivak Koostachin) coaching and guiding her. The cast also includes Lorne Cardinal, Braeden Clarke, Gary Farmer, Kevin Hill, Jayli Wolf, Damon Laforme, Craig Lauzon, Cody Lightning, Denise McQueen, Derek Miller, Sladen Peltier and Alex Rice. The film premiered in April 2021 at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. It was released theatrically in Canada by levelFILM on March 25, 2022. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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