After accruing a substantial debt, a gambler takes his visually impaired daughter on a road trip to see the northern lights before she becomes blind.
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Title: Borealis (2015)
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Cast
| Credited cast: | |||
| Jonas Chernick | ... | Jonah | |
| Joey King | ... | Aurora | |
| Emily Hampshire | ... | Kyla | |
| Clé Bennett | ... | Brick | |
| Abbey Thickson | ... | Leslie | |
| Rebecca Gibson | ... | Dr. Singer | |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Olie Alto | ... | Old Man |
| Greg Bryk | ... | Hunter | |
| Isabella Cotroneo | ... | Little Girl | |
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Charles 'Chuck' Edwards | ... | Dealer |
| Jake Epstein | ... | Fergus | |
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Stephen Eric McIntyre | ... | Larry |
| Garth Merkeley | ... | Chad | |
| Kevin Pollak | ... | Tubby | |
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Dennis Seenie | ... | Pops |
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JONAH, an unemployed gambler, takes his estranged pot-smoking teenaged daughter AURORA on a dangerous road trip to Churchill, Manitoba to show her the magnificent Northern Lights - before her vision disorder renders her completely blind. With a volatile bookie in hot pursuit, Jonah and Aurora are forced to finally confront each other, and their complicated pasts.