The read
A Balasaur Score of 75 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 6.7/10, Rotten Tomatoes 95%. Critics rate it 28 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 80% of the 6,881 2020s drama movies in this catalog. Streaming on Hulu.
Synopsis
Cree matriarch Aline Spears survives a childhood in Canada’s residential school system to continue her family’s generational fight in the face of systemic starvation, racism, and sexual abuse. She uses her uncanny ability to understand and translate codes into working for a special division of the Canadian Air Force as a Cree code talker in World War II. The story unfolds over 100 years with a cumulative force that propels us into the future.
Ratings
IMDb6.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes95%
Critics rate it 28 points higher than audiences do.
14 audience votes
Key crew
- Marie ClementsDirector
- Marie ClementsWriter
- Jesse ZubotOriginal Music Composer
- Wayne LavalleeOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Grace DoveAline Spears
- Phillip Forest LewitskiAdam Whallach
- Rémy GirardFather Jacobs
- Karine VanasseSister Ruth
- Alyssa WapanatâhkPerseverance Spears
- Michelle ThrushJanuary Spears
- Glen GouldMatthew Spears
- Gail MauriceOlder Taylor Whallach
- Carla-RaeOlder Aline Spears
- Cara GeePercy Whallach
- Jonathan WhitesellThomas Miller
- Patrick GarrowArchbishop Thomas Miller
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Themes
indigenousworld war iiperiod dramahistoricalroman catholic churchresidential schoolfirst nationsabused childforced schooling