New Waterford Girl

While imagining the childhood of Andy Warhol, Lou Reed once wrote, "There's only one good thing about a small town: you hate it, and you know you have to leave." A similar notion seems to have occurred to Mooney Pottie (Liane Balaban), a 15-year-old Canadian girl growing up in a village deep in the ...more

Director Allan Moyle (Pump Up the Volume) certainly gets the discontented mood right for Tricia Fish's autobiographical script in the coming-of-age drama New Waterford Girl. The coastal Nova Scotia town is beautifully captured in a stark blue house against barren fields, cloudy skies, and a rocky shore. The sense of time and place is what is best about this film, with the interiors suggesting all that is tacky and affordable about Northern Canadian life in the '70s. However, the ...more