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An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving
''An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving'' is a television film loosely based on a short story by Louisa May Alcott. Filmed on location in Canada, the film premiered on Hallmark Channel on November 22, 2008. It was followed by the sequel, ''An Old Fashioned Christmas'' which aired on December 11, 2010. Synopsis Widow Mary Bassett (Helene Joy) and her three children have hit difficult times on their farm; it is especially apparent when they cannot even afford a turkey for their Thanksgiving dinner. Oldest daughter Tilly (Tatiana Maslany) writes to Mary's wealthy and estranged mother Isabella (Jacqueline Bisset), exaggerating their situation in a lengthy letter. Isabella comes to the farm to offer her help and finds a kindred spirit in Tilly. However, Mary resents her mother's attempts to help them out of their financial difficulties. Cast * Jacqueline Bisset as Isabella * Helene Joy as Mary Bassett * Tatiana Maslany as Mathilda "Tilly" Bassett * Kristopher Turner as Gad Hopkins * Gag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott (; November 29, 1832March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known as the author of the novel ''Little Women'' (1868) and its sequels ''Little Men'' (1871) and ''Jo's Boys'' (1886). Raised in New England by her Transcendentalism, transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Alcott's family suffered from financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes used pen names such as A. M. Barnard, under which she wrote lurid short stories and sensation novels for adults that focused on passion and revenge. Published in 1868, ''Little Women'' is set in the Alcott family home, Or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gage Munroe
Gage Munroe (born January 4, 1999) is a Canadian actor. He has performed roles on television programs like '' Stoked'', ''Murdoch Mysteries'', '' Mr Moon'', ''Falling Skies'' and ''Alphas'', and has appeared in films like the 2008 Canadian drama ''One Week'' (directed by Michael McGowan) and the 2011 epic ''Immortals'' (alongside Henry Cavill and Mickey Rourke). Munroe's best known role was as PK in the festival-lauded Canadian action film '' I Declare War''. He is also known for providing the voices of Hank N Stein in '' Hotel Transylvania: The Series'', Justin in the first two seasons of Justin Time, Marshall in the first season of ''PAW Patrol ''PAW Patrol'' is a Canadian computer-animated children's television series, children's television series created by Keith Chapman. It is produced by Spin Master, Spin Master Entertainment, with animation provided by Guru Studio. In Canada, the ...'' and for playing Josh Philips in the Christian drama '' The Shack''. Filmography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Shot In Toronto
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television Films Based On Short Fiction
Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports. Television became available in crude experimental forms in the late 1920s, but only after several years of further development was the new technology marketed to consumers. After World War II, an improved form of black-and-white television broadcasting became popular in the United Kingdom and the United States, and television sets became commonplace in homes, businesses, and institutions. During the 1950s, television was the primary medium for influencing public opinion.Diggs-Brown, Barbara (2011''Strategic Public Relations: Audience Focused Practice''p. 48 In the mid-1960s, color broadcasting was introduced in the U.S. and most other developed countries. The availability of various types of archival storag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thanksgiving In Films
Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated on various dates in the United States, Canada, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Liberia, and unofficially in countries like Brazil and Philippines. It is also observed in the Netherlander town of Leiden and the Australian territory of Norfolk Island. It began as a day of giving thanks for the blessings of the harvest and of the preceding year. (Similarly named harvest festival holidays occur throughout the world during autumn, including in Germany and Japan). Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States and around the same part of the year in other places. Although Thanksgiving has historical roots in religious and cultural traditions, it has long been celebrated as a secular holiday as well. History Prayers of thanks and special thanksgiving ceremonies are common among most religions after harvests and at other times of the year. The Thanksgiving hol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hallmark Channel Original Films
A hallmark is an official mark or series of marks struck on items made of metal, mostly to certify the content of noble metals—such as platinum, gold, silver and in some nations, palladium. In a more general sense, the term ''hallmark'' can also be used to refer to any distinguishing mark. General overview Historically, hallmarks were applied by a trusted party: the "guardians of the craft" or, more recently, by an assay office. Hallmarks are a guarantee of certain purity or fineness of the metal, as determined by official metal (assay) testing. Distinguishment Hallmarks are often confused with "trademarks" or "maker's marks". A hallmark is not the mark of a manufacturer to distinguish their products from other manufacturers' products: that is the function of trademarks or makers' marks. To be a true hallmark, it must be the guarantee of an independent body or authority that the contents are as marked. Thus, a stamp of "925" by itself is not, strictly speaking, a hallmark, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Films
The year 2008 involved many major film events. ''The Dark Knight'' was the year's highest-grossing film, while ''Slumdog Millionaire'' won the Academy Award for Best Picture (out of eight Academy Awards). Evaluation of the year 2008 has been widely considered to be a very significant year for cinema. The entertainment agency website IGN described 2008 as "one of the biggest years ever for movies." It stated, "2008 was the year when the comic book movie genre not only hits its zenith, but also gained critical respectability thanks to ''The Dark Knight''. Animated films also proved a huge draw for filmgoers, with Pixar's ''WALL-E'' becoming not only the highest grossing toon but also the most lauded. Things got off on the right foot with the monster movie madness of ''Cloverfield''. Marvel got down to business laying the groundwork for their superhero team-up ''The Avengers'' with the blockbuster hit ''Iron Man'' and their respectable attempt at rebooting ''The Incredible Hulk''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Television Films
8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of the form , being an integer greater than 1. * the first number which is neither prime nor semiprime. * the base of the octal number system, which is mostly used with computers. In octal, one digit represents three bits. In modern computers, a byte is a grouping of eight bits, also called an octet. * a Fibonacci number, being plus . The next Fibonacci number is . 8 is the only positive Fibonacci number, aside from 1, that is a perfect cube. * the only nonzero perfect power that is one less than another perfect power, by Mihăilescu's Theorem. * the order of the smallest non-abelian group all of whose subgroups are normal. * the dimension of the octonions and is the highest possible dimension of a normed division algebra. * the first number ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Magazine
''Star'' is an American celebrity tabloid magazine founded in 1974. The magazine is owned by American Media Inc. and overseen by AMI's Chief Content Officer, Dylan Howard. History ''Star'' was founded by Rupert Murdoch in 1974 as competition to the tabloid ''National Enquirer'' with its headquarters in New York City. In the late 1980s it moved its offices to Tarrytown, NY and in 1990 Murdoch sold the magazine to the ''Enquirer''s parent company American Media, Inc. (Murdoch now owns the ''New York Post'', which, although it has more of a regional, news-centered focus, still has significant celebrity coverage.) Originally an unstapled, inexpensive, supermarket tabloid printed on newsprint, ''Star'' was hugely successful but remained in the shadow of its longer-established stablemate. Along with the ''Enquirer'' its circulation declined with the advent of celebrity-driven television shows such as ''Entertainment Tonight'' and ''Hard Copy''. In 1999, AMI was bought by investors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristopher Turner
Kristopher Turner (born September 27, 1980) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as Dr. Gavin Murphy on the medical drama series ''Saving Hope'', and as Jamie Andrews on the CTV teen drama ''Instant Star''. Early life Turner was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He was introduced to the theater by his grandmother. Turner starred in his high school production of '' A Midsummer Night's Dream''. Turner received a degree in theatre from the University of Winnipeg. He was active in a number of theatre productions including '' In Gabriel's Kitchen'' and ''That Face''. Career In 2002, Turner landed a role in the children's series ''2030 CE''. He was cast in the lead role as Lex in director David DeCoteau's 2003 film '' The Brotherhood III: Young Demons''. Following Turner's success in that film, he was cast in another leading role as Gus in the MTV movie ''Everybody's Doing It''. Turner return to the theatre and appeared in a local Winnipeg theatrical prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graeme Campbell (director)
Graeme Neil Campbell (born November 4, 1954) is a Canadian film director, writer and editor. Life and career Campbell was born in Montreal, Quebec to William and Thelma Campbell. He has made films for television, including individual episodes and mini-series. He earned a BFA from Montreal's Concordia University. He has been writing and directing movies and television for over twenty years. He started off making documentaries, but got his first break with the controversial feature, '' Murder One'' released by Miramax in 1988; the film was being directed by screenwriter Fleming 'Tex' Fuller, however after one week of principal photography Fuller was fired and replaced by Campbell. Starring Henry Thomas, the film is an uncompromising portrayal of a horrific crime spree gone wrong. This led to another controversial true crime story, '' Deadly Betrayal: The Bruce Curtis Story'', for NBC about the poisonous friendship between two teens. It caused Scott Watkins of the New York Ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatiana Maslany
Tatiana Gabriele Maslany ( ; born September 22, 1985) is a Canadian actress. She rose to prominence for playing multiple characters in the science fiction thriller television series ''Orphan Black'' (2013–2017), which won her a Primetime Emmy Award (2016), two Critics' Choice Awards (2013 and 2014), and five Canadian Screen Awards (2014–18). Maslany is the first Canadian to win an Emmy in a major dramatic category for acting in a Canadian series. Maslany also appeared in television series such as ''Heartland'' (2008–2010), ''The Nativity'' (2010), ''Being Erica'' (2009–2011), ''Perry Mason'' (2020), and '' She-Hulk: Attorney at Law'' (2022) in the lead role of Jennifer Walters / She-Hulk. Her other notable films include ''Diary of the Dead'' (2007), ''Eastern Promises'' (2007), '' The Vow'' (2012), '' Picture Day'' (2012), ''Cas and Dylan'' (2013), '' Woman in Gold'' (2015), '' Stronger'' (2017), and ''Destroyer'' (2018). For starring in the romantic drama '' The Other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
