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Bruce Pittman is a Director and Production Assistant Canadien born on 4 february 1950 at Toronto (Canada)
Ronald Bruce Pittman, (b. 1950) is an award-winning Canadian television and film director. He directed the 1989 film Where the Spirit Lives, which won 3 awards internationally and has been nominated for multiple Gemini and other awards.
He is a member of the Directors Guild of Canada and the Directors Guild of America.
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Bruce Pittman
Birth name Ronald Bruce Pittman
Nationality Canada
Birth 4 february 1950 (74 years) at Toronto (Canada)
Nationality Canada
Birth 4 february 1950 (74 years) at Toronto (Canada)
He is a member of the Directors Guild of Canada and the Directors Guild of America.
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Filmography of Bruce Pittman (5 films)
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To Brave Alaska (1996)
, 1h29Directed by Bruce Pittman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Actors Alyssa Milano, Cameron Bancroft, Winston Rekert, Barbara Tyson, Jason Gaffney
Rating58%
Set in 1979, the film focuses on a Seattleite couple, police officer and former park ranger Roger Lewis (Bancroft), and 22-year-old waitress Denise Harris (Milano). They are invited by businessman Wylie Bennett (Fraser) to Alaska to head out to the fictional wilderness of Surprise Bay and find a goldmine. If they are successful in retrieving gold, they are awarded 10% of the profit. Denise is hesitant to travel into the wilderness, though blindly follows her boyfriend, who regards the exploring as a great adventure. They are flown to the location, roughly 75 miles away from the nearest 'civilization', with just a dog and a radio with bad reception. There, they are set up in a cabin, where they spend their first couple of weeks. When they realize that their food supply is running out and that nobody is coming to help them, they become afraid. Roger considers shooting a deer, but Denise opposes such due to her vegetarianism.
Harrison Bergeron (1995)
, 1h39Directed by Bruce Pittman
Origin Canada
Genres Science fiction, Comedy
Themes Films about education, Political films, Dystopian films
Actors Sean Astin, Christopher Plummer, Eugene Levy, Howie Mandel, Andrea Martin, Nigel Bennett
Rating71%
Harrison Bergeron lives in a typical suburban town in the year 2053. The audience is told that after the second American Revolution—a war begun due to an ongoing economic depression that was a result of a combination of technological advancement and a widening disparity between the very rich and the very poor—it was mandated that all people be equal in all things. To this end, the social norm of this society has become egalitarianism. Citizens strive to be of equal wealth, intelligence, athletic prowess and social status to all around them. Through a process of selective breeding, mankind is perfecting the perfectly average human being. What is not accomplished through arranged marriages is made up for through technological means, the most prominent of which are only showing mind numbing shows on TV, and a headband device worn by all citizens which modulates intelligence, dialing up or down a person's IQ in order to arrive at a 'perfect' 100.
Where the Spirit Lives (1990)
, 1h36Directed by Bruce Pittman
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Actors Ann-Marie MacDonald, David Hemblen, Ron White, Sarah Williams, Graham Greene, Ron White
Rating74%
In 1937, a young First Nations girl named Ashtoh-Komi is kidnapped along with several other children from a village as part of a Canadian policy to educate First Nations children and assimilate them into Canadian/British society. She is taken to a boarding school, where she is forced to adopt Western Euro-centric ways and learn English, often under harsh treatment. One teacher is portrayed as sympathetic and she becomes repelled by the bigotry of others at the school. She offers Ashtoh-Komi help. Forced to take the name Amelia, Ashtoh-Komi determines to hold on to her First Nations identity and encourages her younger sibling to do so as well. She plans their escape.
, 1h37Directed by Bruce Pittman, Ron Oliver
Origin Canada
Genres Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Ghost films, Serial killer films
Actors Michael Ironside, Justin Louis, Richard Monette, Lisa Schrage, Terri Hawkes
Rating57%
In 1957, seventeen-year-old Mary Lou Maloney (Lisa Schrage) enters a church, where she confesses her sins to the priest (Jay Smith), claiming to have disobeyed her parents, used the Lord's name in vain and had sinful relations with various boys. The pastor tells her that "these are great sins and she should prepare herself for the consequences." Before leaving, Mary Lou tells the priest that she loved every minute of it and leaves her phone number in the confession booth along with a written message: "For a good time call Mary Lou."
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Reflections of Murder (1974)
, 1h40Directed by John Badham
Origin USA
Genres Thriller
Actors Tuesday Weld, Joan Hackett, Sam Waterston, Lucille Benson, Michael Lerner, R.G. Armstrong
Roles Production Assistant
Rating67%
Claire (Hackett) is the abused wife of vicious schoolmaster Michael (Waterston), who takes great delight in belittling and emotionally abusing her both in public and in private. Michael is also openly carrying on an affair with one of the school's teachers, Vicky (Weld), whom he sometimes physically assaults. Having grown tired of his cruelty, the two women conspire to murder him and stage the act to look like an accident. But after committing the deed his body disappears, and the women begin to fear that someone might be trying to drive them mad.