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John N. Smith is a Director, Scriptwriter and Editor Canadien born on 31 july 1943 at Montreal (Canada)

John N. Smith

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Nationality Canada
Birth 31 july 1943 (80 years) at Montreal (Canada)

John N. Smith (born July 31, 1943 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He began his career making documentary and short films before moving on to feature films and then finally working primarily in television. His work has been nominated in the Academy Awards, Genie Awards, and Gemini Awards, but has only won the latter.

He is best known for the 1995 drama Dangerous Minds, starring Michelle Pfeiffer, and the TV movie The Boys of St. Vincent. From 1972 until his completion of The Boys of St. Vincent in 1992, Smith was a staff filmmaker at the National Film Board of Canada.

He is married to filmmaker Cynthia Scott.

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Dangerous Minds

(1995)
(Director)

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Fred Ward
(1 films)

David Hewlett
(1 films)

Donald Graham Burt
(2 films)

Michael Wade
(1 films)

Alain Goulem
(1 films)

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Filmography of John N. Smith (7 films)

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The Englishman's Boy (2008)

, 3h
Directed by John N. Smith
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Western
Actors Bob Hoskins, Nicholas Campbell, Michael Therriault, R.H. Thomson, Katharine Isabelle, Tantoo Cardinal
Rating73%

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Geraldine's Fortune (2004)

Directed by John N. Smith
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Jane Curtin, Mary Walsh, Matt Frewer, Sheila McCarthy, Peter MacNeill, Monique Mercure
Rating59%

Geraldine Liddle (Curtin) is a small town woman from New Brunswick who gains local fame as she is about to appear on a gameshow called Bring Home the Bacon (a show with a pig theme similar to Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?) with a top prize of $2 million dollars. As friends and family gather to watch Geraldine on television, family secrets come to surface and a physical fight occurs, bringing all the family and friends outdoors. As the fight is happening, Geraldine calls them for help with a question during the gameshow. After the question is asked, the scene turns back to the home where the fight is happening outdoors and where only Geraldine's elderly mother, who has less that her full faculties, is left alone, inside near the phone. The telephone rings and rings and rings, until finally she answers. Geraldine, realizing the senility of the woman, doesn't know whether to trust her answer. Geraldine and her husband return to announce whether she answered the question correctly or not, only to discover long buried family truths have come to light.

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A Cool, Dry Place (1998)

, 1h37
Directed by John N. Smith
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Vince Vaughn, Devon Sawa, Monica Potter, Joey Lauren Adams, Dean McDermott, Siobhan Fallon Hogan
Rating61%

A single father balances his work as an attorney with the care of his five-year-old son and his work as a high school basketball coach in rural Kansas, where he moved after his wife abandoned him in Chicago. Just as he starts to develop a new relationship with a veterinarian's assistant, his wife suddenly reappears and wants to re-assert herself in her husband and son's life. On top of the romantic conflict, he is also suddenly presented with the opportunity of a lifetime to join a major firm in Dallas. In the end, the wife runs off with the boy to Cincinnati, the father turns down the job, and the wife gives the boy back to him.

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Dangerous Minds (1995)

, 1h39
Directed by John N. Smith
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Crime
Themes Films about education, Films about music and musicians, Hip hop films, Gangster films
Actors Michelle Pfeiffer, George Dzundza, Robin Bartlett, Courtney B. Vance, Beatrice Winde, John Neville
Rating65%

LouAnne (Michelle Pfeiffer), a discharged U.S. Marine, applies for a teaching job in High School, and is surprised and pleased to be offered the position with immediate effect. Showing up the next day to begin teaching, however, she finds herself confronted with a classroom of tough, sullen teenagers, all from lower-class and underprivileged backgrounds, involved in gang warfare and drug pushing, flatly refusing to engage with anything. They immediately coin the nickname "White Bread" for LouAnne, due to her race and apparent lack of authority, to which LouAnne responds by returning the next day in a leather jacket and teaching them karate. The students show some interest in such activities, but immediately revert to their former behavior when LouAnne tries to teach the curriculum.

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The Boys of St. Vincent (1992)

, 1h30
Directed by John N. Smith
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Documentary, Crime
Themes Films about children, Films about sexuality, Films about pedophilia
Actors Henry Czerny, Sebastian Spence, David Hewlett, Aidan Devine, Michael Wade, Alain Goulem
Rating74%

Au milieu des années 70, le concierge de l'orphelinat religieux pour garçons Saint-Vincent à Terre-Neuve est à l'origine d'une enquête de police qui révèle que de nombreux enfants y sont victimes de sévices corporels et sexuels. Les frères incriminés sont simplement relevés de leurs fonctions, la collusion entre la hiérarchie catholique et différents membres du gouvernement ayant abouti au classement de l'affaire. Quinze ans plus tard, un inspecteur rouvre le dossier et le gouvernement nomme une commission d'enquête. Les enfants abusés, devenus des adultes traumatisés, viennent enfin témoigner publiquement de leur calvaire.

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