Bordertown Café is a 1992 Canadian drama film produced and directed by Norma Bailey and written by Kelly Rebar, based on her 1987 play of the same name. The film stars Janet Wright and Susan Hogan. Set in Alberta, Bordertown Café was filmed outside of Warren, Manitoba.
Hogan plays Marlene, the divorced owner of a small café in a rural Alberta town near the Canada–United States border, whose life is turned upside down when her son Jimmy (Gordon Michael Woolvett) is offered the opportunity to go live with his father and his father's new wife in the States.
Wright plays Maxine, Marlene's mother and Jimmy's grandmother. She won the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role at the 13th Genie Awards ceremony. Rebar was also nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay, and Lara Mazur was nominated for Best Editing.
Cast
Susan Hogan as Marlene
Janet Wright as Maxine
Lora Schroeder as Linda
Victor Cowie as Chuck
James Holland as Quint
Rugard Drusche as Wally
Ted Felbel as Carl
Alec McClure as Nedchuk
Margaret Anne MacLeod as Aunt Thelma
Dorothy Montpetit as Mae
Ruth De Graves as Dee
Samantha Chemerika as Dee's Daughter
Wil Parrott as Dee's Son
Donna Lewis as Joy
Pauline Broderick as Mrs. Nedchuck
Martha Little as Barb
Maureen Young-Howarth as Jill
Kim Johnston as Tom
Bobby Jones as Bran
Nicholas Campbell as Don
Sean McCann as Jim
Ric Reid as Bob
Gordon Michael Woolvett as Jimmy