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New Waterford Girl (1999) 6.7
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6.7/10 from 1,353 users
Metascore: 72/100
Reviews: 44 user | 15 critic | 5 from Metacritic.com A gifted teenager, dreaming of life beyond her small town, becomes inspired when a 15-year-old girl from New York moves in next door. Director:Allan MoyleWriter:Tricia Fish (screenplay) |
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Cast
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| Mary Walsh | ... |
Cookie Pottie
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Frances Pottie
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Cecil Sweeney
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Darren Keay | ... |
Lexter Pottie
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Kevin Curran | ... |
Joey
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Krista MacDonald | ... | |
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Darlene Pottie
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Adrien Dixon | ... |
Felix Pottie
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Patrick Joyce | ... |
Darcy Benzoa
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Lorne Pardy | ... |
Father Madden
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Doctor Hogan
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Susan Quinn | ... |
Sandra
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It's sometime in the 1970's. Fifteen year old loner Agnes Marie Pottie - nicknamed Mooney - dreams of escaping life in New Waterford, a coastal Nova Scotia town on Cape Breton Island. She has quiet contempt for most of the people around her - including her large family - who don't share her sensibilities. They, who are ruled by Catholic mores, in turn think she's unconventional and weird. She thinks she's realized her dream when, with the help of her teacher Cecil Sweeney, who himself has escaped to New Waterford to find himself (at which he has been unsuccessful so far), she has been awarded a scholarship to attend an art school in New York. Her dreams are temporarily dashed when her parents don't allow her to go. She devises a plan to get out of New Waterford, one that goes against her loner status. In the meantime, a bit of New York comes to New Waterford in the form of Lou Benzoa, who, with her dance instructor mother, has temporarily moved next door to the Pottie's to escape life... Written by Huggo
Plot Keywords:
small town | new girl in town | scholarship | innocence lost | unwanted pregnancy |Taglines:
Get Pregnant Now. Lose Virginity Later.Genres:
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21 January 2000 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Grandes Planos See more »Box Office
Opening Weekend:
$44,302 (USA) (7 July 2000)Gross:
$774,469 (USA) (29 September 2000)Company Credits
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Performed by Patti Smith (as Patti Smith Group)
Written by Patti Smith and Ivan Král
Published by Linda's Music Corp.
Courtesy of Arista Records Inc.
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When writer Tricia Fish moved to New Waterford at age 13 with her family, her six-year-old brother ran into their kitchen one day all bloody, and happily said, "I made a friend!" She incorporated this into the movie, in an identical scene with the character of Darcy, Lou's little brother. See more »Goofs
When Moonie goes to Sweeney's trailer, as she is walking through the field there is for a second the shadow of the camera operator on the ground on the right side of the frame. See more »Quotes
Lou Benzoa: The Hudson River is filled with piss, cola, and sludge, OK? There's hardly any water in it.See more »
Connections
Featured in Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche (2004) See more »Soundtracks
"Ask the Angels"Performed by Patti Smith (as Patti Smith Group)
Written by Patti Smith and Ivan Král
Published by Linda's Music Corp.
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I truly enjoyed this film. I'm usually not the type to like the girl coming to age films. But I loved this one probably because its not completely focused on the usual girl growing breast and realizing she's now a woman, story plot. Instead its about a girl that will do almost anything to get out of her small mining town. Including pretending to be a floozy and getting pregnant. I think the two lead actress (Liane Balaban and Tara Spencer Nairn)are great and I'm sure they will go far. If you like a good not so coming of age film check out this one I'm sure you will like it.