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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.
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
Feb 21, 1997 · "Margaret's Museum'' is the story of the people who must make their living from the cold-hearted, cost-conscious mining company, but it isn't like other films with similar themes (like "Sons and Lovers,'' "The Molly Maguires'' or "Matewan''). It's quirkier and more eccentric, and has a thread of wry humor running through it.
Sep 13, 1995 · 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.
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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A 1995 Canadian film about a young woman's obsession with preserving her loved ones in Nova Scotia. The film explores themes of poverty, love, death and Celtic culture, and features a stunning final scene by Helena Bonham Carter.
Set in 1940s Cape Breton Island, Margaret's Museum follows Helena Bonham Carter's Margaret; a working class woman wary of love since much of her family has died in the local coal mine. Margaret falls for a bagpipes playing and Gaelic speaking dishwasher, only for tragedy to strike.
