Bordertown Café

Bordertown Café

Infobox Film
name = Bordertown Café


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director = Norma Bailey
producer = Norma Bailey
writer = Kelly Rebar
narrator =
starring = Janet Wright
Susan Hogan
Gordon Michael Woolvett
music = Ben Mink
cinematography = Ian Elkin
editing = Lara Mazur
distributor =
released = 1992
runtime = 101 min.
country = Canada
language = English
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amg_id = 1:161904
imdb_id = 0101499

"Bordertown Café" is a Canadian drama film, originally released in 1992. The screenplay was written by Kelly Rebar based on her award-winning 1990 play of the same name, and the film was directed by Norma Bailey. The film stars Janet Wright and Susan Hogan.

Hogan plays Marlene, the divorced owner of a small café in a rural Alberta town near the Canada-United States border, whose life is turned upside down when her son Jimmy (Gordon Michael Woolvett) is offered the opportunity to go live with his father and his father's new wife in the States.

Wright plays Maxine, Marlene's mother and Jimmy's grandmother. She won the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role at the 13th Genie Awards ceremony.

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