NFB Collection
Bordertown Café
19931 h 40 min 35 secFilm: Fiction, Feature-length fiction
Direction: Norma Bailey
Production: Norma BaileyStephen J. RothJoe MacDonaldChes Yetman
Script: Kelly Rebar
Co-produced by Cinexus and Flat City Films Inc. in association with the NFB and with the financial assistance of CBC, Allarcom Pay Television Ltd., First Choice Canadian Communications Corporation, Telefilm Canada and the Canada-Manitoba Cultural Industries Development Office.
Marlene is the owner of a nostalgic cafe on the border of Canada and the U.S.A.. Filled with quirky and charming characters, life at the cafe is exciting, entertaining and sometimes chaotic. The envy of his friends because of his eccentric lifestyle, Marlene's seventeen-year-old son, Jimmy dreams of a life behind a white picket fence. His mother's attachment to the past and her reluctance to move on, severely strains their relationship. Jimmy's wishes come true when his father remarries, and asks Jimmy to join him in his new life. The stability that Jimmy has been yearning for is suddenly at his fingertips. Jimmy feels inexplicably torn. Marlene, devastated with the news, finally finds herself reaching out to Jimmy.
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Subject categories
- Families > AdolescentsDivorce and SeparationParent-Child Relationships
- Social Issues > AdolescentsFamily LifeRural Life
Credits
- director
- Norma Bailey
- producer
- Norma Bailey
- executive producer
- Stephen J. Roth
- associate producer
- Joe MacDonald
- Ches Yetman
- script
- Kelly Rebar
- photography
- Ian Elkin
- editing
- Lara Mazur
- sound editing
- Gael MacLean
- music
- Ben Mink
- cast
- Susan Hogan
- Janet Wright
- Gordon Woolvett
- Sean McCann
- Nicholas Campbell
- Ric Reid
- Lora Schroeder
- Victor Cowie
- James Holland
- Rugard Drusche