A Population of One

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Canada

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How it feels

A young woman starts her first job as a professor of English literature. She develops a romantic interest in a male colleague at the university.

light-heartedromanticslow-pacedacademicgentleobservationalwhimsical

What happens

A Population of One is a Canadian television film, directed by Robert Sherrin and broadcast by CBC Television in 1980. Based on the novel by Constance Beresford-Howe, the film stars Dixie Seatle as Willy Doyle, a young woman who gets her first job as a professor of 19th-century English literature at a university, where she finds herself romantically attracted to her colleague John Trueman (R. H. Thomson). The cast also includes Tony Van Bridge as Archie Clark, the head of the English faculty; Kate Lynch as Marg, a faculty colleague; Jonathan Welsh as Marg's boyfriend Harry, an activist who is lobbying to get Archie deposed as department head in favour of a younger professor with more modern teaching methods; and Nicholas Campbell as Mike, a student with his own interest in Willy. The teleplay was written by Anna Sandor. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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