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Acting
Adam Butcher's face does three hours of work in 90 minutes.
Direction
Pinsent treats Newfoundland like its own character—gritty, gorgeous, gone.
Writing
Teen boy horniness rendered as actual poetry, somehow.

Director
Gordon Pinsent
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