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New Waterford Girl

2000, Movie, NR, 97 mins

New Waterford Girl: Review

Gentle and deliberately paced, this '70s-era comedy-drama about a 15-year-old girl dying to get out of her tiny Nova Scotia hometown is the antithesis of flashy, trashy Hollywood coming-of-age pictures. Agnes Marie "Mooney" Pottie (Liane Balaban) hates New Waterford, a desolate, intensely Catholic mining town where there's not much to see and nothing for young people to do. Smart and creative, she's caught the eye of teacher Cecil Sweeny (Andrew McCarthy), who thinks she can get a scholarship to study somewhere else — maybe even New York City. Read the complete review for New Waterford Girl