''Salt Water Moose'' is a 1996 Canadian family film directed by

Stuart Margolin Stuart Margolin (January 31, 1940 – December 12, 2022) was an American film, theater, and television actor and director who won two Emmy Awards for playing Evelyn "Angel" Martin on the 1970s television series ''The Rockford Files''. In 1973, h ...

. Filmed in

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and in

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, it stars

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, Johnny Morina, and

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Plot

The plot revolves around two kids who decide to help a bull moose stranded on an island by floating a female moose to the island.

Cast

* Johnny Morina as Bobby Scofield *

as Josephine 'Jo' Parnell *

as Lester Parnell *

as Eva Scofield * Corinne Conley as Grandma

Reception

In 1997 Margolin won a

Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Children's Programs The Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Children's Programs is one of the annual Directors Guild of America Awards given by the Directors Guild of America. It was first awarded at the 49th Directors Guild of ...

for his direction of this film."DGA taps 'Patient’s' Minghella"
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'', March 9, 1997.

References

External links

*
Salt Water Moose at TCM

Salt Water Moose at British Film Institute
{{Stuart Margolin 1996 films 1990s English-language films Films directed by Stuart Margolin