The Grocer's Wife
The Grocer's Wife is a film by Canadian director John Pozer, released in 1991.[1] It won the inaugural Claude Jutra Award for best feature film by a first-time director.[2]
Set in Trail, British Columbia,[1] the film stars Simon Webb as Tim Midley, an emissions inspector at the local smokestack who lives with his domineering mother Mildred (Andrea Rankin). When his mother falls ill, he invites stripper Anita Newlove (Susinn McFarlen) to move in with him, while simultaneously fending off the advances of Mrs. Friendly (Nicola Cavendish), the wife of the neighbourhood grocer.[1]
Cavendish won the Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress at the 14th Genie Awards.[1]
The film was also noted for giving rise to the "West Coast Wave" of Canadian filmmakers in the 1990s; several film students who would later go on to become prominent in Canadian cinema, including directors Lynne Stopkewich, Mina Shum and Bruce Sweeney, editor and director Reginald Harkema and cinematographer Greg Middleton, worked on The Grocer's Wife as one of their first filmmaking jobs.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 The Grocer's Wife at the Toronto International Film Festival's Canadian Film Encyclopedia.
- ↑ Claude Jutra Award entry at The Canadian Encyclopedia.