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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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- Drama
- Mort Ransen
- 1996-01-26
Aug 17, 2018 · Margaret's Museum 1995 full. Possibly makes it into my 'greatest of all time' list. The ending is exceptional-watch and find out! Notable appearances include Kenneth Welsh (WIndham Earle...
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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- Mort Ransen
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- Helena Bonham Carter
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'').
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.
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.
