''Cadillac Girls'' is a 1993 Canadian

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directed by Nicholas Kendall and starring

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, and

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."Canadian single-mother saga Cadillac Girls ends up in the ditch". ''

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'', September 2, 1993.

Plot

Sally (

) is a college professor and single mother in

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who moves with her troubled and delinquent daughter Page (

) back to her hometown of

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after her father's death. Page takes quite favourably to smalltown life and begins dating Will (

), while Sally begins a new relationship with poet Sam (

), but all of their new happiness leaves Sally struggling to decide what to do when she is offered her dream job with

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Awards

At the

14th Genie Awards The 14th Genie Awards were held on December 12, 1993."Glenn Gould Still Scoring Prizes". ''The Globe and Mail'', March 13, 1993. In a bid to increase the visibility of the Genie Awards in the francophone market in Quebec, the ceremony was held in ...

, musician and composer

Simon Kendall Simon Kendall is a Canadian rock musician and film composer. The longtime keyboardist for Doug and the Slugs, he won the Genie Award for Best Original Score at the 14th Genie Awards in 1993 for the film '' Cadillac Girls'', and was shortlisted fo ...

won the award for Best Original Score for his work on the film."Genies honor Gould film: B.C. comedy the Lotus Eaters a big winner with three awards". ''

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'', December 13, 1993.

References

External links

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