Crackie

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2018}} {{Infobox film | name = Crackie | image = Crackie.jpg | alt = | caption = | director = Sherry White | producer = Rhonda Buckley<br />Jennice Ripley<br />Sherry White | writer = Sherry White | starring = | music = Duane Andrews | cinematography = Stephen Reizes | editing = Chris Darlington | studio = Kickham East Productions | distributor = | released = {{Film date|2009|7||Karlovy Vary International Film Festival}} | runtime = 94 minutes | country = Canada | language = English | budget = | gross = }} '''''Crackie''''' is a 2009 Canadian drama film written and directed by Sherry White. It stars Meghan Greeley, Mary Walsh, Joel Thomas Hynes and Cheryl Wells, and is White's first feature film.

==Plot== Mitsy (Greeley) is a teenage student who lives with her grandmother, Bride (Walsh) after having been left at an early age by her mother (Wells).<ref name=allmovie /> Mitsy secretly dreams of leaving her small town to live with her mother in Alberta but finds her life disrupted when her mother suddenly reappears.<ref name=reuters />

==Cast== {{Cast listing| *Mary Walsh as Bride *Meghan Greeley as Mitsy *Cheryl Wells as Gwenny *Joel Thomas Hynes as Duffy *Kristin Booth as Gail *Deborah Jackman as Debbie }}

==Release== ''Crackie'' was an official selection at film festivals including the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic, the Toronto International Film Festival, the Montreal World Film Festival and the Torino Film Festival in Turin. It won the Grand Prix Focus — Special Mention at Montreal, and the Jury Special Prize at Torino.<ref name=torino />

==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=allmovie>{{Citation | last = Deming | first = Mark | title = Crackie > Overview | work = Allmovie | publisher = Rovi Corporation | url = http://www.allmovie.com/work/crackie-497248 | accessdate =January 21, 2011 }}</ref> <ref name=reuters>{{Citation | last = McGurty | first = Frank | title = Growing Up Alone: Girls on Film at Toronto Festival | work = Reuters | publisher = Thomson Reuters | date = September 17, 2009 | url = http://ca.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idCATRE58G6P720090917?sp=true | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120329064523/http://ca.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idCATRE58G6P720090917?sp=true | url-status = dead | archive-date = March 29, 2012 | accessdate =January 21, 2011 }}</ref> <ref name=torino>{{Citation | title = Torino 28 - International Feature Film Competition | work = Official website | publisher = Torino Film Festival | url = http://www.torinofilmfest.org/?action=article&id=148&menu=1 | accessdate = January 21, 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111128192918/http://www.torinofilmfest.org/?action=article&id=148&menu=1 | archive-date = November 28, 2011 | url-status = dead }}</ref> }}

==External links== * {{IMDb title|1331300}}

Category:2009 films Category:2009 drama films Category:Canadian drama films Category:English-language Canadian films Category:2009 English-language films Category:2009 Canadian films Category:English-language drama films