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Emerging from the elemental forces of a fierce 1853 winter, alone in the wilderness, 18-year-old Annie McKillop arrives in the town of Walley, Ontario, barely alive, starved and half mad from her near-disastrous struggle for survival. Upon being confronted by James Mullen, the clerk of the peace, she confesses to a murder, eventually acknowledging that the victim was her young husband, Simon Heron. While locked up in the local jail and under the investigation of Mullen, Annie gradually unravels her story as she remembers it, trying to determine her own role in what happened. Edge of Madness, which is based on the short story A Wilderness Station by acclaimed Canadian writer Alice Munro, is a taut period mystery, literate and character-driven, authentic to its time period but told in a contemporary cinematic fashion.
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Anne Wheeler
Director
Anne Wheeler is one of Canada's most distinguished filmmakers, with numerous award-winning features, television programs and documentaries to her credit. Her feature and television films include The Investigation (2002), Suddenly Naked (2001), The Orkney Lad: The Story of Isabel Gunn (2001), Marine Life (2000), Better Than Chocolate (1999), The Sleep Room (1998), Mother Trucker: The Diana Kilmury Story (1996), The Diviners (1991), Bye Bye Blues (1988), Cowboys Don't Cry (1987) and Loyalties (1986). For television, she has also directed several short dramas as well as episodes of some of Canada's most successful series, including Da Vinci's Inquest, Beggars and Choosers, Mysterious Ways, Cold Squad, The Adventures of Shirley Holmes, Jake and the Kid and North of 60. Her documentaries include A War Story (1981).
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35 mm
99 minutes
Colour
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Producer
Bill Gray
Executive Producers
Marie-Claude Beauchamp
Derek Mazur
Jacques Pettigrew
Charles K. Pitts
Director
Anne Wheeler
Scriptwriters
Charles K. Pitts
Anne Wheeler
Based on a short story by
Alice Munro
Director of Photography
David Frazee
Editing
Robert Lower
Sound
Sylvain Bourgault
Production Designer
Louise Middleton
Costume Designer
Linda Madden
Music
Randolf Peters
Cast
Caroline Dhavernas
Paul Johansson
Corey Sevier
Brendan Fehr
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Production
CinéGroupe inc.
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Montreal Quebec
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Canada
(514) 849-5008
(514) 849-5001
info@cinegroupe.ca
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Canada
Distribution
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Suite 1901
Toronto Ontario
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Canada
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(416) 944-9670
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