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The Purse
196611 min 36 secFilm: Fiction
Direction: Patricia Watson
Production: Guy Glover
Script: Patricia Watson
A provocative film about conscience, or the lack of it. An elderly woman "finds" a purse on the bus. She takes it home and discovers it contains some money. The woman who lost the purse collects insurance. The question the film asks is: does any circumstance excuse taking what is not ours? A film for discussion.
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Subject categories
- Law and Crime > Crimes
- Religion, Beliefs and Ethics > Ethics and Bioethics
Credits
- director
- Patricia Watson
- script
- Patricia Watson
- producer
- Guy Glover
- photography
- Gilles Gascon
- Jean-Claude Labrecque
- sound
- Roger Hart
- Jacques Drouin
- editing
- Kathleen Shannon
- sound editing
- Sidney Pearson
- cast
- Jackie Burroughs
- Christopher Payne
- Maude Whitmore