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Dear America: So Far from Home (1999) -- Working at a mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, teenage Mary, a recent immigrant from Ireland, finds that life in America is not what she expected.

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Writer:

Barry Denenberg (book)

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Release Date:

14 October 1999 (USA) more

Genre:

Short | Drama | Family | History more

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. | add synopsis

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Cast

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Laura Bertram ... Mary Driscoll

Steven McCarthy ... Sean Riordan

Lynne Griffin ... Aunt Nora
Gema Zamprogna ... Annie Clark
Shaun Austin-Olsen ... Mr. Quinn
Francesca Scorsone ... Clarissa
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Patrick Chilvers ... Prosecutor

David Christo ... Yankee boy
Victor Ertmanis ... Mr. Fowler
John Nelles ... Constable
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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)
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Runtime:

27 min

Company:

Scholastic Productions more

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Follows Dear America: A Journey to the New World (1999) (TV) more

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