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Booky Makes Her Mark is a film of genre Drama with Tatiana Maslany

Booky Makes Her Mark (2006)

Booky Makes Her Mark
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Length 1h29
Genres Drama
Rating63% 3.187873.187873.187873.187873.18787

Booky Makes Her Mark is a made-for-TV movie that is based on the books by Bernice Thurman Hunter. This uplifting family film also features beloved Canadian actors Megan Follows ("Anne of Green Gables"), Roberta Maxwell and Lally Cadeau. Filmed in Hamilton Ontario Canada and set in Toronto, this film features a young and diverse cast of Canadian actors and actresses.

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Beatrice “Booky” Thomson, is a spunky 15-year-old who dreams of becoming a great writer despite the odds. Life in Toronto during the 1930s are hard ones for Booky’s family. Parents Thomas and Francy are barely able to eke out a living for themselves and their children Willa, Arthur and Booky. But irrepressible Booky, with her big imagination and even bigger plans, seems able to tackle anything.

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