Margaret's Museum

Name: Margaret's Museum
Genre: Drama
Released: 1997-05-09
Duration: 1 h 54 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Kate Nelligan, Clive Russell

1995
AA
1h 54m

IMDb RATING

7.2/10

1.4K

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Helena Bonham Carter and Clive Russell in Margaret's Museum (1995)

Drama

Margaret MacNiel, a girl living in a Cape Breton coal mining town, finds her life changing when she meets Neil Currie, a cheerful bagpipe-playing dishwasher. Unfortunately, neither of them a... Read allMargaret MacNiel, a girl living in a Cape Breton coal mining town, finds her life changing when she meets Neil Currie, a cheerful bagpipe-playing dishwasher. Unfortunately, neither of them are able to escape the industry around them.Margaret MacNiel, a girl living in a Cape Breton coal mining town, finds her life changing when she meets Neil Currie, a cheerful bagpipe-playing dishwasher. Unfortunately, neither of them are able to escape the industry around them.

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IMDb RATING

7.2/10

1.4K

YOUR RATING

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Awards
- 10 wins & 6 nominations

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Helena Bonham Carter in Margaret's Museum (1995)

Vic Sarin with Helena Bonham Carter. "Margaret's Museum" (1995).

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Quotes
Angus MacNeil: I've been sober too long, Margaret; it's kept me from thinking straight.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: The Empire Strikes Back: Special Edition/When We Were Kings/Blood & Wine/Lost Highway/Margaret's Museum (1997)

Soundtracks
Chi Mi Na Marbheanna
Performed by The Rankin Family
Arranged by The Rankin Family
Copyright The Rankin Family Inc.
From the album The Rankin Family
Copyright 1989 EMI Music Canada Inc.

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8/10

A Dark and Tragic Love Story

Margaret's Museum (1995) UK/Canada 114m, Colour Director: Mort Ransen; Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Clive Russell, Craig Olejnik, Kate Nelligan, Kenneth Welsh, Andrea Morris

Margaret's Museum is a dark and tragic love story about a woman's grief and defiance after losing much of her family to the coal mines in Glace Bay Nova Scotia during the 1940s. Based on Sheldon Currie's 1979 novel entitled The Glace Bay Miners' Museum, Margaret's Museum is a beautifully photographed and wonderfully scored film with haunting and unforgettable images and melodies. A deeply moving and original film, Helena Bonham Carter and Clive Russell give remarkably convincing and heartfelt performances in this powerful film about life and death in small Canadian coal mining community (Klaus Ming September 2013).

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