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A Life Interrupted
''A Life Interrupted'' is a 2007 Lifetime Television film directed by Stefan Pleszczynski and starring Lea Thompson. It was nominated in 2008 for the Best TV Movie Gemini Award. It depicts events in the life of sexual assault victim Debbie Smith, which led to the passage of the Debbie Smith Act. in 2004. On March 3, 1989, a man wearing a ski mask entered Debbie Smith's home in Williamsburg, Virginia, and threatened her with a gun. He then dragged her into the woods and blindfolded her, before raping her repeatedly over the next hour. She participated in the collection of DNA evidence for a sexual assault evidence kit, but it was not formally tested and entered into the national criminal database until 1994. The film follows Debbie's fight for justice. Cast * Lea Thompson as Debbie Smith * Anthony Lemke as Rob Smith * Cindy Busby as Crystal Smith *Eleonore Lamothe as Young Crystal * Tommy Lioutas as Bobby Smith * Devon Bostick Devon Bostick (born November 13, 1991) is a Can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Pleszczynski
Stefan Pleszczynski (born in Eastern Townships, Quebec) is a Polish-Canadian film and television director, film producer and screenwriter. Career Pleszczynski's television credits include ''Da Vinci's Inquest'', '' Intelligence'', ''The Worst Witch'', ''Weirdsister College'', ''Sophie'', ''18 to Life'', '' Flashpoint'' and the American-Canadian adaption of '' Being Human''. He has been recently credit with directing the 19th episode in the ninth season of the show '' Supernatural''. The episode was aired on 22 April 2014. The plot of this episode revolves around the supernatural entity - ''Vampires'', which also happen to be the main entities in Pleszczynski's show '' Being Human''. Pleszczynski has also directed the television films '' Live Once, Die Twice'' (2006) starring Kellie Martin, ''Circle of Friends'' (2006) starring Julie Benz and ''A Life Interrupted'' (2007) starring Lea Thompson. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lea Thompson
Lea Katherine Thompson (born May 31, 1961) is an American actress and director. She is best known for her role as Lorraine Baines-McFly in the ''Back to the Future'' film trilogy (1985–1990) and Beverly Switzler in '' Howard the Duck'' (1986). Other films for which she is known include '' All the Right Moves'' (1983), '' Red Dawn'' (1984), '' Some Kind of Wonderful'' (1987), '' Dennis the Menace'' (1993) and ''The Beverly Hillbillies'' (1993). In the 1990s, she played the title character in the NBC sitcom '' Caroline in the City''. From 2011 to 2017, she co-starred as Kathryn Kennish in the ABC Family-turned- Freeform series '' Switched at Birth''. Early life Thompson was born on May 31, 1961, in Rochester, Minnesota, one of five children of Clifford and Barbara Barry Thompson, a musician. She has two sisters, Coleen Goodrich and Shannon Katona, and two brothers, Andrew and Barry She studied ballet as a girl and danced professionally by the age of 14, winning scholarsh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lifetime (TV Network)
Lifetime is an American basic cable channel that is part of Lifetime Entertainment Services, a subsidiary of A&E Networks, which is jointly owned by Hearst Communications and The Walt Disney Company. It features programming that is geared toward women or features women in lead roles. , it is received by 93.8 million households in America. History Predecessors There were two television channels that preceded Lifetime in its current incarnation. Daytime, originally called BETA, was launched in March 1982 by Hearst-ABC Video Services.(June 15, 1983Hearst-ABC, Viacom in Pact. New York Times.Lifetime Entertainment Services History . International Directory of Company Histories, Vol. 32. St. James Press, 2000. Hosted on Funding Universe.com. Retrieved on December 4, 2013. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Gemini Awards
The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television's 23rd Gemini Awards were held on November 28, 2008, to honour achievements in Canadian television. The awards show, which was hosted by Jason Priestley, took place at the John Bassett Theatre in Toronto and was broadcast on Showcase and E!. Awards Best Dramatic Series *''Intelligence'' - Haddock Entertainment. Producers: Chris Haddock, Laura Lightbown, Arvi Liimatainen *'' The Border'' - White Pine Pictures. Producers: Peter Raymont, David Barlow, Brian Dennis, Janet Maclean *'' Durham County'' - Muse Entertainment, Back Alley Film Productions. Producers: Janis Lundman, Adrienne Mitchell, Michael Prupas *''Murdoch Mysteries'' - Shaftesbury Films, Rogers Media, UKTV. Producers: Christina Jennings, Cal Coons, Scott Garvie, Noel Hedges, Jan Peter Meyboom *''The Tudors'' - Peace Arch Entertainment, Reveille Productions, Working Title Films, Showtime Networks. Producers: Sheila Hockin, Morgan O’Sullivan Best Dramatic Mini-Series *'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debbie Smith Act
The Debbie Smith Act of 2004 () provides United States federal government grants to eligible states and units of local government to conduct DNA analyses of backlogged DNA samples collected from victims of crimes and criminal offenders. The Act expands the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) and provides legal assistance to survivors of dating violence. Named after sexual assault survivor Debbie Smith, the Act was passed by the 108th Congress as part of larger legislation, the Justice for All Act of 2004 (), and signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 30, 2004. The Act amended the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 (), the DNA Identification Act of 1994 (), the Violence Against Women Act of 2000, and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The Act was reauthorized in 2008, extending the availability of DNA backlog reduction program grants, DNA evidence training and education program grants, and sexual assault forensic exam program grants through fiscal year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Williamsburg, Virginia
Williamsburg is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 15,425. Located on the Virginia Peninsula, Williamsburg is in the northern part of the Hampton Roads metropolitan area. It is bordered by James City County on the west and south and York County on the east. English settlers founded Williamsburg in 1632 as Middle Plantation, a fortified settlement on high ground between the James and York rivers. The city functioned as the capital of the Colony and Commonwealth of Virginia from 1699 to 1780 and became the center of political events in Virginia leading to the American Revolution. The College of William & Mary, established in 1693, is the second-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and the only one of the nine colonial colleges in the South. Its alumni include three U.S. presidents as well as many other important figures in the nation's early history. The city's tourism-based economy is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Lemke
Roger Anthony Lemke (born October 7, 1970) is a Canadian television and film actor, best known for portraying Three (Marcus Boone / Titch) on Syfy's science-fiction drama ''Dark Matter.'' In French Canada, Lemke is best known for playing David Rothstein on Radio Canada's comedy-drama '' Les Hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin''. Early life and education Anthony Lemke was born in Ottawa, Ontario. He is the child of immigrants, his parents having arrived from the Netherlands and East Prussia in the early 1960s. Lemke attended elementary and high school in French under the immersion programs at Knoxdale Public School, Greenbank Middle School, and Sir Robert Borden High School in Nepean. Upon graduation, Lemke moved to Waterloo, Ontario to study theatre at the University of Waterloo. Lemke also holds degrees in both common law and civil law, having graduated from the McGill University Faculty of Law with Distinction. Career Lemke landed his first professional role in a produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cindy Busby
Cindy Busby (born March 18, 1983) is a Canadian actress. She portrayed Ashley Stanton on '' Heartland'', and has played many roles in Hallmark movies, including ''Marrying Mr. Darcy'', ''Follow Me to Daisy Hills'', and ''Warming Up to You''. Early life Born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, Busby always dreamed of becoming an actress. From the time she was a child, she loved performing for an audience and throughout her elementary school and high school years, she devoted herself to every theater school production. Upon graduating from high school, Busby was accepted into the Professional Theater Program at Dawson College in Montreal and was admitted from among hundreds of applicants. Career Starting out in theater in 2005, she crossed into television and film and was given her first lead in the story of the Canadian medical hero Norman Bethune in the television series ''Bethune'', which filmed in rural China for two and a half months and attracted several million viewers. In 2006 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devon Bostick
Devon Bostick (born November 13, 1991) is a Canadian actor. He played Rodrick Heffley in the first three '' Diary of a Wimpy Kid'' films, starred in the Atom Egoyan-directed film ''Adoration'' (2008) and portrayed Jasper Jordan on the dystopian science fiction television series '' The 100'' from 2014 to 2017. Life and career Bostick was born in Toronto, Ontario. His mother, Stephanie Gorin, is a casting director in Toronto, who works on stage and screen and his father, Joe Bostick, is an actor as well as a film fight coordinator. He is of British and Norwegian descent. Devon began acting when in grade five. He is a graduate of the Etobicoke School of the Arts in Toronto. He has had roles in the television series '' Degrassi: The Next Generation'', '' Flashpoint'' and in the film '' Citizen Duane'', and appeared in the series premiere of '' Rookie Blue''. His film work has included roles in '' Godsend'', ''Fugitive Pieces'' and ''The Stone Angel''. In ''Adoration'' (2008), h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Drama Television Films
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English-language Canadian Films
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic ( Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lifetime (TV Network) Films
Lifetime may refer to: * Life expectancy, the length of time a person is expected to remain alive Arts, entertainment, and media Music * Lifetime (band), a rock band from New Jersey * ''Life Time'' (Rollins Band album), by Rollins Band * ''Life Time'' (Tony Williams album), by American jazz drummer Tony Williams * ''Lifetime'' (Lifetime album), a 2007 album by the band Lifetime * ''Lifetime'' (Real Life album), 1990 * ''Lifetime'' (Klein album), 2019 * '' LifeTimes'', a 1979 album by Diana Hubbard * "Lifetime" (Katharine McPhee song), a 2010 song from ''Unbroken'' * "Lifetime" (Noah and the Whale song) * "Lifetime" (Maxwell song), a 2002 song by American R&B singer Maxwell * "Lifetime" (Usher song) * "Lifetimes", a 2001 Progressive house track by Slam * " A Lifetime", a 2001 song by Better Than Ezra * "Lifetimes" (song), a 2005 song by Sheryl Crow from ''Wildflower'' * "Lifetime" (Swedish House Mafia song) * "Lifetime" (Three Days Grace song) Television * "L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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