Bordertown Café is a 1992 Canadian drama film produced and directed by Norma Bailey and written by Kelly Rebar, based on her 1987 play of the same name."Cafe connects cultures". Calgary Herald, November 27, 1992. The film stars Janet Wright and Susan Hogan. Set in Alberta, Bordertown Café was filmed outside of Warren, Manitoba."A Bordertown Cafe springs up in a Manitoba wheatfield". Toronto Star, September 29, 1990.
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."Naked Lunch top fare at Genies 8 awards for surrealistic fantasy, but some films ill-served by presenters". The Globe and Mail, November 23, 1992. Rebar was also nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay, and Lara Mazur was nominated for Best Editing."Genie award nominations". Toronto Star, November 20, 1992.
Cast Susan Hogan as Marlene Janet Wright as Maxine Lora Schroeder as Linda Victor Cowie as Chuck James Holland as Quint Rugard Drusche as Wally Ted Felbel as Carl Alec McClure as Nedchuk Margaret Anne MacLeod as Aunt Thelma Dorothy Montpetit as Mae Ruth De Graves as Dee Samantha Chemerika as Dee's Daughter Wil Parrott as Dee's Son Donna Lewis as Joy Pauline Broderick as Mrs. Nedchuck Martha Little as Barb Maureen Young-Howarth as Jill Kim Johnston as Tom Bobby Jones as Bran Nicholas Campbell as Don Sean McCann as Jim Ric Reid as Bob Gordon Michael Woolvett as Jimmy
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