MAUDIE
*2016 Winner of the LiUNA People’s Choice Award
Marshalltown, Nova Scotia, 1937. Maud Dowley, afflicted with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, is stuck living with her unsympathetic aunt. She passes the time by creating colourful art. Desperate to break away, she responds to a local fish peddler’s call for a housekeeper. Everett Lewis is disagreeable and initially cruel to Maudie, but the two quickly acknowledge that each is in their own way a social outcast. They need and understand each other. Within weeks, they marry.
One day a summer resident comes calling. She’s a New Yorker, who wears alluring clothing and speaks like Katharine Hepburn. She sees something in Maudie’s paintings and commissions a piece. Suddenly Maudie’s pastime is recognized as having real value. People come from far and wide. Eventually, her work will hang in the White House. This is a tale of a woman asserting herself as a generator of both art and commerce. But it is also a story of the power of creativity to transform a life and touch the soul.
Director
Aisling Walsh
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Rating
STC
Year
2016
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Runtime
1h 55m
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