New Waterford Girl | Liane Balaban, Tara Spencer-Nairn

New Waterford Girl | Liane Balaban, Tara Spencer-Nairn | Hilarious, Unconventional Look At Growing up In A Small Town

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New Waterford Girl

	New Waterford Girl Liane Balaban, Tara Spencer-Nairn Fox Lorber, 2002 average customer review:based on 10 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Filmed on location in damp, windswept Nova Scotia and set in the 1970s, New Waterford Girl centers around the attempts of Moonie (newcomer Liane Balaban) to flee the constraints of small-town life. The lanky lass would like to be an artist and is encouraged by her teacher, Sweeney (Andrew McCarthy), to apply for a scholarship that will take her out of Cape Breton. In the meantime, she befriends Lou (Tara Spencer-Nairn), the tough girl next door, who helps her to devise an alternate plan. As in his previous features, Times Square and Pump Up the Volume, director Allen Moyle is interested in pop culture and teens who don't quite fit in. Despite the presence of better-known actors like Cathy Moriarty (Raging Bull) and Mark McKinney (Kids in the Hall), this is Balaban's film and she carries it with an awkward, yet endearing grace. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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being in west windfield...

well, there wasn't much to do there, but thank god my grandpa got all channels in the universe, or else I never would've seen this movie. I watched it with my friend, who said it sucked. It didn't. I missed the first 15 minutes however, which probably made the whole movie. Excellent either way.

Hilarious, Unconventional Look At Growing up In A Small Town

Desperate to leave the dreary confines of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, loner Moonie Pottie (Liane Balaban) seeks help from a teacher Mr. Sweeney (brilliantly played by Andrew McCarthy). A supportive (thought slightly lecherous) friend, he helps her win a scholarship to a school in New York City. Unfortunately, Moonie's strict Irish Catholic parents will hear nothing of their 15 year old daughter moving to New York.

When Moonie teams up with another outsider named Lou (Tara Spencer-Nairn), a newcomer to Cape Breton from NYC, they devise an outrageous plan to help Moonie escape. Besides being the champion of Moonie's ambitions, Lou becomes a hilarious force to be reckoned with when less than gentlemanly males betray the girls of the town.

"New Waterford Girl" perfectly captures the nuances of growing up in the 70's with sympathetic, believable characters that might have been clich?d with a less talented writer. Few "coming of age" movies manage to blend laughs with reality this perfectly.

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New Waterford Girl

To me, this is what family is all about. Moonie's mother and father struggle to understand her. She's weird. She's creative. She's an artist. Their little town isn't large enough for her. Moonie's family push her to give up her dreams, like each of them did. That probably was alright for them. Moonie persists and finally her mother "gets it," not that she understands Moonie's artistic nature at all, just that she understands that Moonie needs to live in a larger world. After all is said and done, the most important thing is that Moonie's mother loves her.

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YOU MUST SEE THIS MOVIE!

I purchased this movie for a present, but by no fault of Amazon, it didn't arrive in time. I will never give it away, but I may purchase it for many friends. This is a FABULOUS film. I thought it was a boxing movie, but you have to watch it for 45 minutes to even see a shred of boxing. This is witty, bright, intelligent, and a simply amazing film. Guys, girls, everyone loves it. We saw "Juno" just before seeing this movie, and they are two films that are worth contrasting. Gee whiz, ya' just gotta see this movie, see the talented actors/actresses, appreciate the dialogue and plot development...ya' just gotta see it. It is definitely one of my all-time favorite films, and I'm really, really picky.

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