Marine Life (film)

Marine Life is a Canadian drama film, directed by Anne Wheeler and released in 2000.[1] Based on the short story collection of the same name by Linda Svendsen,[1] the film stars Cybill Shepherd as June, a jazz singer coping with feelings of failure in her career and her complicated relationships with her teenage daughter Adele (Alexandra Purvis) and her boyfriend Robert (Peter Outerbridge).[2]

Marine Life
Directed byAnne Wheeler
Written byRobert Forsyth
Lori Lansens
Based onMarine Life by Linda Svendsen
Produced byArvi Liimatainen
Jeanne Stromberg
StarringCybill Shepherd
Peter Outerbridge
Alexandra Purvis
CinematographyDavid Pelletier
Edited byAlison Grace
Music byGeorge Blondheim
Production
companies
Crescent Entertainment
Marine Life Productions
Distributed byAlliance Atlantis
Release date
September 15, 2000 (TIFF)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Shepherd agreed to take the role in part because she had been a fan of Wheeler's previous film Better Than Chocolate.[3] The film's cast also includes Gabrielle Miller, Michael Hogan and Tyler Labine.

The film premiered at the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival.[4]

The film received two Genie Award nominations at the 22nd Genie Awards in 2002, for Best Actor (Outerbridge) and Best Sound Editing (Gael MacLean, Jim Harrington, Patrick Haskill, Michael Keeping and Gina Mueller).[5]

References
  1. "UBC prof's Marine Life now an Anne Wheeler film". Vancouver Sun, December 10, 1999.
  2. "Dipping into the Hollywood cookie jar: The director of Marine Life is an independent West Coast filmmaker and likes it that way". National Post, September 14, 2000.
  3. "Director hits bull's-eye with Shepherd: Marine Life comes to Calgary for International Film Festival". Calgary Herald, September 30, 2000.
  4. "Festival's Canadian series opens in Maelstrom ; Quirky film by Denis Villeneuve one of 15 homegrown features premiering this year". Toronto Star, July 26, 2000.
  5. "Nominees for this year's Genie Awards". Toronto Star, December 13, 2001.


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