Sarah Polley

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Road to Avonlea (TV Series) (1990): Dir. Paul Shapiro, Dick Benner
Feat. Colleen Dewhurst, Frank Converse, Sarah Polley; A must see for those who appreciated ANNE OF GREEN GABLES, this is another enchanting country tale of childhood intrigue and mischief.
Sweet Hereafter, The (1997): Dir. Atom Egoyan
Feat. Ian Holm, Tom McCamus, Sarah Polley; A piercingly intelligent adaptation of Russell Banks' novel about a lawyer's earnest meddling in the aftermath of a school bus tragedy in…
Last Night (1998): Dir. Don McKellar
Feat. Don McKellar, Callum Keith Rennie, Sandra Oh…; Ingeniously crafted drama from actor Don McKellar, who stars here too, as one of six people spending the last six hours before the end of the world…
Existenz (1998): Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Ian Holm…; Dir. David Cronenberg bestows his customary intelligence on the 'Virtual Reality' genre, yet this time complements his visceral obsessions and mad…
Go (1999): Dir. Doug Liman
Feat. Sarah Polley, Katie Holmes, Jay Mohr…; The director of SWINGERS switches focus to the reckless chic of LA's twentysomething rave scene, brandishing a slew of racy taboos, an impossibly…
Life Before This, The (1999): Dir. Jerry Ciccoritti
Feat. Sarah Polley, Stephen Rea, Joe Pantoliano…; Based loosely on a real–life shootout in Toronto, this ambitious drama postulates life as a mosaic of interconnected actions, where often…
Claim, The (2000): Dir. Michael Winterbottom
Feat. Peter Mullan, Nastassja Kinski, Sarah Polley…; On the mountainous frontier of the 1860s California goldrush, dir. Winterbottom (JUDE, WONDERLAND) reimagines Thomas Hardy’s ‘The Mayor of…
Weight of Water, The (2000): Dir. Kathryn Bigelow
Feat. Elizabeth Hurley, Catherine McCormack, Sean Penn…; Time–twist thriller, that intercuts a gothic murder–mystery of the late 19th century with present–day marital intrigue. Set on…
Guinevere (2001): Dir. Audrey Wells
Feat. Sarah Polley, Stephen Rea; Sarah Polley (GO) headlines in this Sundance–winning indie, as a directionless Harvard graduate who falls under the spell of…
My Life Without Me (2003): Dir. Isabel Coixet
Feat. Sarah Polley, Mark Ruffalo, Deborah Harry…; This award–winning vignette concerns a young woman (Polley), told by her doctor she has only a short time to live, who strives to secretly…
Event, The (2003): Dir. Thom Fitzgerald
Feat. Olympia Dukakis, Don McKellar, Sarah Polley…; The taboo of assisted suicide is broached in this measured Canadian ensemble drama about an AIDS–afflicted musician (McKellar) who takes his…
I Inside, The (2003): Dir. Roland Suso Richter
Feat. Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Polley, Piper Perabo…; Head–scratching psychological thriller centred on an amnesiac (Phillippe) who cannot recall the last two years of his life and begins to travel…
Dawn of the Dead (2004): Dir. Zack Snyder
Feat. Jake Weber, Kevin Zegers, Mekhi Phifer…; Tight–edged remake of George Romero's original zombie–fest, again reprising a tense battle between a small posse of post–apocalypse…
Don't Come Knocking (2005): Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange, Tim Roth…; Desultry tale of a washed–out actor who goes missing from a film production and, with the insurance company on his tail, ends up uncovering…
Beowulf and Grendel (2005): Dir. Sturla Gunnarsson
Feat. Gerard Butler, Stellan Skarsgard, Sarah Polley; A rousing medieval adaptation of the Anglo–Saxon epic poem in sweeping fantasy tones. Filled with constant action in a strange, otherworldly…
Secret Life of Words, The (2005): Dir. Isabel Coixet
Feat. Sarah Polley, Tim Robbins, Julie Christie; Intense character–driven drama set on an isolated oil rig that explores the relationship between a hearing–impaired factory worker…
Away From Her (2007): Dir. Sarah Polley
Feat. Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent, Olympia Dukakis; Julie Christie stars in this carefully observed drama about a woman with Alzheimer's, her husband, and the tragedy of the disease's 'long goodbye',…
John Adams (2008): Dir. Tom Hooper
Feat. Paul Giamatti, Laura Linney, Sarah Polley…; Acclaimed miniseries on the life of America's second president and founding father John Adams. Simultaneously epic and intimate this is compulsory…
Splice (2009): Dir. Vincenzo Natali
Feat. Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley; The director of cult hit CUBE ups the ante in hybrid horror with this story of geneticists who, after recombining DNA from different species, give…
Take This Waltz (2011): Dir. Sarah Polley
Feat. Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Luke Kirby…; Sarah Polley (AWAY FROM HER) directs Michelle Williams in this soft–spoken indie about a happily married woman who falls for her next door…
Stories We Tell (2012): Dir. Sarah Polley; Indie actress turned director Sarah Polley investigates a long–held family secret in this absorbing personal documentary.

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