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New Waterford Girl (1999)
6.8
Ratings: 6.8/10 from 1,308 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 Moyle |
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Mooney Pottie
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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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Storyline
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... Written by Huggo
Plot Summary | Add SynopsisPlot Keywords:
Small Town | New Girl In Town | Scholarship | Innocence Lost | Unwanted Pregnancy | See more »Taglines:
Get Pregnant Now. Lose Virginity Later.Genres:
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Country:
CanadaLanguage:
EnglishAlso Known As:
La fille de New Waterford See more »Box Office
Gross:
$774,469 (USA) (1 October 2000)Company Credits
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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
Anachronisms: The movie is set in the 1970's, and as the two girls (Moonie and Lou) are driving along the coast to the bonfire place, there is a visible blue Dodge Neon parked in one of the houses. Dodge Neon was introduced the mid-1990's. See more »Quotes
Moonie Pottie: Ask me anything. I know Lexter Pottie cried with happiness when they named the triplets Rudy, Joy, and Brenda. I know all the street-names. I know how to re-use a tea-bag. I know what they do up number eleven. I know how to beat the crap out of someone. I know all about God's country. Ask me anything.See more »
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Featured in Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche (2004) See more »
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