Dear America: So Far from Home (1999) (TV)

Writer:

Barry Denenberg (book)

Release Date:

14 October 1999 (USA)

Genre:

Short | Drama | Family | History

Plot:

Working at a mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, teenage Mary, a recent immigrant from Ireland, finds that life in America is not what she expected. |

Plot Keywords:

Mill | Massachusetts | Lowell Massachusetts | Immigrant | Ireland

Cast

Laura Bertram	...	Mary Driscoll
Steven McCarthy	...	Sean Riordan
Lynne Griffin	...	Aunt Nora
Gema Zamprogna	...	Annie Clark
Shaun Austin-Olsen	...	Mr. Quinn
Francesca Scorsone	...	Clarissa
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Patrick Chilvers	...	Prosecutor
David Christo	...	Yankee boy
Victor Ertmanis	...	Mr. Fowler
John Nelles	...	Constable

Also Known As:

Dear America 05 (USA) (series title)
Dear America: So Far from Home - The Story of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847 (USA) (video box title)
Dear America: So Far from Home: The Story of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847 (USA) (video box title)

Runtime:

27 min

Company:

Scholastic Productions

Movie Connections:

Follows Dear America: Dreams in the Golden Country (1999) (TV)