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Margaret's Museum is a 1995 Canadian-British drama film directed by Mort Ransen and based on Sheldon Currie's novel The Glace Bay Miners' Museum. It stars Helena Bonham Carter, Clive Russell, and Kate Nelligan. The film won six Genie Awards, including acting awards for Bonham Carter and Nelligan.
Feb 21, 1997 · A film adaptation of Sheldon Currie's short stories about a woman who builds a museum to honor the cost of coal in a Nova Scotia mining town. Roger Ebert praises the quirky and wry humor, the Celtic wit and the performances of Helena Bonham Carter and Clive Russell.
Jan 26, 1996 · Margaret's Museum: Directed by Mort Ransen. With Helena Bonham Carter, Clive Russell, Craig Olejnik, Kate Nelligan. 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.
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- Mort Ransen
- 1996-01-26
In a small mining town in 1940s Nova Scotia, Margaret (Helena Bonham Carter) grows to despise the mines after her brother and dad die working there. She then meets Neil (Clive Russell), a bagpipe...
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Set in the 1940s on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, "Margaret's Museum" is a bittersweet Celtic love story that depicts the grindingly impoverished lives of coal miners trapped, several generations deep, in a company town.
- Mort Ransen
- Billy Fraser
In a town where half the men die down the coalpit, Margaret MacNeil is quite happy being single in her small Cape Breton island town. Until she meets Neil Currie, a charming and sincere bagpipe-playing, Gaelic-speaking dishwasher.
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Margaret's Museum is a critically acclaimed 1995 British-Canadian dark film drama, directed by Mort Ransen and based on Sheldon Currie's novel The Glace Bay Miners' Museum.
