Random passage

DVD 2008

This award winning miniseries traces the difficult passage of young Mary Keane (Aoife McMahon) from servitude in Ireland to the squalor of rough-and-tumble Newfoundland in the early 1800s. Escaping attempted rape and abuse, Mary moves on with her infant daughter to find shelter at a remote fishing station run by Thomas Hutchings (Colm Meaney - Layer Cake, Kings). In a time and place where life and death are a hair's breadth apart, Mary joins the...

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Description:

2 videodiscs (ca. 360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in

Target Audience Note:

CHVR: Not rated

Notes:

Based on the novels "Random passage" and "Waiting for time" by Bernice Morgan
Special features: Audio commentary ; production interviews ; behind the scenes at Cape Random ; cast and production team biographies
Originally broadcast as a television mini-series in 2002
Canadiana
Director of photography, Pierre Letarte ; editor, Jean-Pierre Cereghetti ; music, Stephen McKeon
Colm Meaney, Aoife McMahon, Deborah Pollitt, Daniel Payne, Michael Sapieha and Jessica Paré
DVD ; full screen presentation
For private home use only

Control Number:

972423

UPC:

066805308574

Other Authors:

BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Ltd
BFS Video (Firm)
Bernard, Mary-Lynn, 1956-
Cité-Amérique International
Daly, Mike
Devine, Brenda
Dinn, Philip, 1949-
Doran, Barbara
Full Works (Firm)
Jones, Andy, 1948-
Kelly, Darragh
Kelly, Leslie
Lawrence, Ruth
Lynch, Tristan Orpen
McMahon, Aoife
Meaney, Colm, 1953-
Morgan, Bernice. Random passage. DVD
Morgan, Bernice. Waiting for time. DVD
Passage Films (Firm)
Payne, Daniel
Pollitt, Deborah
Rex, Michelle
Richard, Lorraine
Ripley, Jennice
Sapieha, Michael
Smith, John N., 1943-
Subotica Entertainment (Firm)
Walsh, Des
Walsh, Mary, 1952-

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