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	New Waterford Girl Movie Review
		New Waterford in the 1970s is an isolated, conservative town where Catholicism is still a vital part of everyday life.
		Although the story of "New Waterford Girl" is fairly typical coming-of-age fare, rarely has this sort of tale been told with such delicious humor.
		There is also a certain authenticity to the proceedings: the teens of New Waterford get drunk and make out and argue with their families just like young people really do.
	www.killermovies.com /n/newwaterfordgirl/reviews/efc.html (1065 words)

	TAKE ONE: New waterford girl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Lou is at first picked on by the town's tough girls, but when it is discovered that she has inherited her father's knockout punch, the town toughs engage her to punch out one of their two-timing boyfriends.
		Lou asks, "If I do this, will I be a New Waterford girl?" "No," they say with dumbfounded surprise, "you weren't born here." But Lou does deck the guy anyway and her road to acceptance has begun.
		New Waterford Girl is a rarity in Canadian cinema, artistically and commercially successful at the same time.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0JSF/is_30_9/ai_30527207 (1198 words)

	'New Waterford Girl': Clueless and Angry in a Small 70's Town
		It's not exactly a new story, but the filmmakers' sense of local color, their springy, disjointed narrative style and a general refusal on their part or the actors' to stoop to caricature give this version a freshness and intensity that recall the television series "My So-Called Life" of blessed memory.
		In its second half, "New Waterford Girl," which had been a meandering tour of its locale, accelerates into a comedy of sexual misunderstanding -- not the least of which is Mooney's own incomprehension of sexual matters.
		"New Waterford Girl" is being shown with "When the Day Breaks," an animated short film by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis that sketches a landscape of urban disconnection populated by farm animals.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/film/072600film-waterford-girl.html (847 words)

	DVD Talk > Reviews > New Waterford Girl
		New Waterford Girl is a surprisingly touching and poignant film about an unlikely friendship that develops between two very different teenage girls.
		The two girls form a unique bond, Lou showing Mooney how to have a good time and how to make the most of her alienation from the rest of the town, and Mooney giving the worldly Lou a small-town perspective on life.
		New Waterford Girl is directed by Allan Moyle, who also brought us Pump Up the Volume, and although I can see thematic parallels between the two films, this one feels more like the small, tender effort of a first-time filmmaker—and I mean that in a good way.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/read.php?ID=3682 (600 words)

	village voice > film > We’ve Got to Get Out of This Place by Amy Taubin
		New Waterford may be a one-street town, but the Nova Scotia coast has a rough, romantic beauty, and the closer Mooney comes to getting out, the more she feels the pull of the place.
		The local girls peg Lou as a "fuckin' Toronto lesbo bitch" (they can't imagine that she's come from as far away as New York), but she wins them over by using her fists to punish their two-timing boyfriends.
		White Trash Girl, who was flushed down the toilet right after she was born and thrived on sludge, becomes a turbo-charged defender of working girls and the enemy of bikers, bartenders, and men in general.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0030/taubin.shtml (1184 words)

	New Waterford Girl Movie Review by Anthony Leong from MediaCircus.net
		Unfortunately, this is the case with "New Waterford Girl", a Canadian film that has created quite a stir in arthouses across Canada.
		Though this character study of teen angst in a coastal town does have its moments, "New Waterford Girl" is little more than a mildly interesting catharsis of the screenwriter's teenage years that is quickly forgotten once the end credits start to roll.
		Hailing from New York City, Lou Benzoa (Tara Spencer-Nairn) and her mother Midge (Cathy Moriarty of "Gloria") are 'laying low' in town for a few months, and wind up being even more out of place than Mooney (one of Midge's great ideas is to hold mambo lessons in the mining town).
	www.mediacircus.net /nwg.html (911 words)

	New Waterford Girl (2000): Reviews
		Two teenage girls in a small Nova Scotia town, one a local who feels suffocated by the town and the other recently transplanted from the Bronx, cook up a plan to esape the area to pursue their dreams.
		Nova Scotians get the cute treatment as "New Waterford Girl" opens with Moonie (Liane Balaban)'s attendance of a wedding/funeral combo, she explains in voiceover, as a way of cutting costs.
		But Moonie's belligerence of her austere surroundings is miraculously smug-free because she believes in the same Waterford superstitions, and part of the film's design to neuroticize rural folks.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/newwaterfordgirl (605 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on New Waterford Girl at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		New Waterford Girl portrays this reality well, with the town of New Waterford being a pretty economically depressed area.
		The town of New Waterford is situated on the edge of a large cliff which runs the entire length of the shore, and the tallest building in the sparse town is the church.
		Some people from New York move in next door, and their teenage daughter drags Moonie out to the "party scene" of New Waterford, where Moonie discovers that in this ultra-Catholic town, getting pregnant will get you sent out of town to have the baby in secret.
	www.epinions.com /content_34340245124 (490 words)

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		New Waterford is a real place, and in the seventies, when this movie is set, it was a predominately Catholic town.
		New Waterford is surrounded by water on at least two sides (it's on a Cape), and the waves are always crashing in wildly on the rockier areas.
		Girl who was with Pickles: Yeah, I belive Father Madden used to mudwrestle with the bishop from Faye's Lane.
	www.geocities.com /bluelagoon1980/nwg/newwaterfordgirltranscript.txt (11130 words)

	Movie Review - New Waterford Girl - eFilmCritic
		It appears that her dreams of moving to the big smoke are destined to remain unfulfilled, and she gets a taste of what she’s missing when a brash, sassy daughter of a boxer from the Bronx named Lou (Tara Spencer-Nairn) moves in next door.
		New Waterford is portrayed as a windswept, lonely hamlet, a place where there's nothing to do and all the time in the world to do it in.
		When her teacher (none other than Andrew McCarthy, a regular of the "Where are they now?" columns) secures her a scholarship at a New York school it appears her problems are over, but when her parents refuse her requests to attend she hatches a rather cunning plan to secure her release.
	efilmcritic.com /review.php?movie=4378&reviewer=193 (836 words)

	CNN.com - Comic and absurd, 'New Waterford Girl' a small triumph - August 8, 2000
		The denizens of New Waterford, Cape Breton -- there couldn't be more than 300 of them -- have surrendered themselves to lives of morbid immobility in their Nova Scotia town.
		New Waterford's sole yearning inhabitant, an artistically inclined 15-year-old girl named Mooney Pottie (Liane Balaban), suspects that there's life beyond the nearest TV set or bottle of cheap wine.
		Its would-be punk teen-agers are afraid to have sex for fear of ending up in hell; the girls who do get pregnant are immediately shipped away to give their babies up for adoption.
	www.cnn.com /2000/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/08/review.waterford.girl/index.html (1046 words)

	REVIEW: A Quirky, Gentle "New Waterford Girl"
		The town is poor, the housing cramped -- Moonie is one of five siblings and a sister-in-law in the house -- and the citizens are proper, God-fearing Catholics.
		The only girls who escape New Waterford are those who are pregnant, and they leave to have their children away from embarrassment before returning.
		Then there is Lou (Tara Spencer-Nairn), a girl from the Bronx who has moved to New Waterford with her mother (Cathy Moriarty), because "that's where the tracks end." In other words, they are running from something, and that involves Lou's father, a boxer of some repute who is back in the States, in jail.
	www.indiewire.com /movies/rev_000727_Waterford.html (743 words)

	DR.J At The Movies: New Waterford Girls
		Teen girls getting pregnant is almost an epidemic in New Waterford, with many of the boys dropping the girl they impregnated as soon as she gets knocked up.
		At first the town's girls don't warm to the city girl, that is until she displays her dad's upper cut by knocking out a boy who got one of the girl's pregnant.
		And ironically, the Maritimers' loathing of Ontario is illustrated in one of a just-recently-pregnant girl's attempt to think of the worst insult she can, and coming up with "Ontario Lesbo", which incidentally brought down the house at the Cumberland Theatre in Toronto.
	webhome.idirect.com /~stewy/2000/newwater.htm (732 words)

	eye - Bringing it all back home - 06.01.00
		Tricia Fish, the writer of New Waterford Girl, is speaking on the phone from Halifax.
		The roles of two sisters in Mooney's family, Betty Anne and Darlene, were played by two real-life sisters from New Waterford, Crista and Cathy McDonald, and many of the other parts were taken by actors from Cape Breton.
		But she adds that, over the years, she came to appreciate the very mentality that made her feel like an outsider as a kid, and that was why she'd always wanted to write something about the town.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_06.01.00/film/newwaterford.html (1122 words)

	TAKE ONE: New Waterford girl: the rules according to Moyle - Allan
		That was when New Waterford Girl fell into his hands.
		They find me. In fact, New Waterford Girl arrived in my hands on a day when I was in the mood to get out of L.A. I thought it was a sign.
		Written by Tricia Fish (a Canadian Film Centre graduate whom he regards as the spirit and soul of the film), New Waterford Girl is set during the 1970s in the coal-mining town of New Waterford, Cape Breton.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0JSF/is_27/ai_30385841 (1493 words)

	New Waterford Girl: Irish & Celtic VHS at An Irish Christmas.com
		I decided to see "New Waterford Girl" since someone had described it as a Canadian "Angela's Ashes" (I believe it was more popular in Canada than the film adaptation of "Angela's Ashes".), set in the predominantly Irish Canadian town of New Waterford, Cape Breton Island.
		Mooney Pottie is an eccentric, teenage, odd duck in the small Irish-Catholic town of New Waterford on Cape Breton, Nova Scotia---a town where the mere mention of the Blessed Virgin will stop a sinner "in his tracks".
		Hampered on all sides by her family, peers, and everyone else in town, Moonie figures the only way out is to pretend to be pregnant-- so she'll be sent away to have the child.
	www.anirishchristmas.com /B00005Y74F/New_Waterford_Girl.htm (569 words)

	dOc DVD Review: New Waterford Girl (1999)
		Perched on the edge of the Atlantic ocean, this predominantly Catholic seaside community is unusual in that while born from its coal mines, it is also a fishing village, and all of its residents make their living from one industry or the other.
		As fate would have it, a new neighbor moves in next door, an outspoken American girl a year Mooney's senior, who has left the Bronx with her mother to escape a scandal.
		A fantastic coming of age story, New Waterford Girl captures the spirit of small town maritime life, as a young woman tries to free herself from the traditional lifestyle she has been born into.
	www.moviereviewindex.com /getreview/22437 (1091 words)

	Melodious Inkwell: New Waterford Girl
		So you can imagine my excitement when I heard they were filming a movie called New Waterford Girl.
		Or New Waterford Girls, depending on the source and how much beer they'd had.
		As the official New Waterford Girl website says, "New Waterford Girl was shot entirely on location in Dominion, North Sydney, Glace Bay, Low Point, Sydney, and of course, New Waterford (population almost 10,000)." Sure, these are all within 30km or so of here, but notice how NW is mentioned last?
	www.gaylebird.com /inkwell/nwg.html (1538 words)

	New Waterford Girl (1999) - Northern Stars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		New Waterford Girl is the story of Mooney Pottie, a fifteen-year-old girl living in New Waterford who wants desperately to leave, but lacks the courage.
		She is a thoughtful and intelligent bookworm, a dreamer who is regarded by everyone, including her family, as an oddball and misfit.
		While Mooney is highly perceptive and sees the limitations of this small, conservative town, she loves her family and doesn't want to hurt them by rejecting their lifestyle and leaving New Waterford, even when she's offered a scholarship to attend an arts school in Manhattan, the city of her dreams.
	www.northernstars.ca /titles/newwaterford.html (146 words)

	Intelliflix: Rent New Waterford Girl on DVD
		Her schoolteacher Cecil Sweeny (Andrew McCarthy), is the only one in the town who sees her potential and arranges a scholarship for her to attend an arts school in Manhattan, which her parents promptly shoot down.
		As Lou slowly pulls Mooney out of her shell, the two come up with an escape plan to leave New Waterford in the only way possible.
		This fine little film is blessed not only with splending acting from its ensemble cast, but also great cinematography of New Waterford and the surrounding Cape Breton coast and a fine rock and roll score composed by several young Canadian composers (One of whom is a relative of mine.).
	www.intelliflix.com /movie_view.dvd?id=34163 (384 words)

	New Waterford Girl
		New Waterford Girl is (c) 1999, 2000, Alliance-Atlantic.
		Main Girl: That was her boyfriend you pounded at the party.
		Francis: For the girl with the knockout punch.
	www.geocities.com /nwgmovie/t/nwgimagetranscript.html (9521 words)

	New Waterford Girl (1999) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Plot Outline: A gifted teenager, dreaming of life beyond her small town, becomes inspired when a 15-year-old girl from New York moves in next door.
		Trivia: When writer Tricia Fish moved to New Waterford at age 13 with her family, her six-year-old brother ran into their kitchen one day all bloody, and happily said, "I made a friend!" She incorporated this into the movie, in an identical scene with the character of Darcy, Lou's little brother.
		I went to New Waterford and, suffice it to say, it is an even stranger town than the movie would make it appear.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0213121 (306 words)

	Film Threat - Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		It is only when a new girl moves to town and is immediately despised by the natives that opportunities for Moonie's escape arise.
		Never stooping to the lows of late John Hughes, New Waterford Girl is a touching ode to the confusing world of high school, an entirely different place when set in a small town as opposed to the big city.
		Rather than trying to sell the classic teenage budding romance story the film focuses on the efforts of two girls out of place in their surroundings, making the best of their time in captivity.
	www.filmthreat.com /Reviews.asp?File=ReviewsOne.inc&Id=296 (441 words)

	New Waterford Girl on DVD - MovieWeb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		In mid-1970s New Waterford on Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, an 18-year-old girl without a child is rather unusual--and 15-year-old Mooney Pottie (Liane Balaban, in an auspicious debut) is feeling suppressed by the small-mindedness that surrounds her.
		Seen as freakish by her family for her incessant reading and a desire to move to New York, Mooney refuses to temper her thirst for knowledge and attend the booze-fueled makeout parties her classmates live for.
		But when her sympathetic teacher, Cecil Sweeney (Andrew McCarthy), informs Mooney that he has gotten her accepted at an Arts High School in New York, she is prepared to do whatever it takes to escape her oppressive origins.
	movieweb.com /dvd/dvd.php?720917531922 (297 words)

	New Waterford Girl (1999)
		Mooney (Balban) is a 15-year-old sullen girl whose dreams and artistic talent are too large for her provincial small town of New Waterford, Nova Scotia.
		There are a few funny scenes (the family having a wedding reception and a wake at the same time; Lou’s mom’s disgust of making a baloney sandwich with white bread; Mooney’s sisters giving her advice on how far to go with a boy), but they’re not enough to make an impression.
		The featurette reveals nothing new and is in essence, a ten minute commercial for the movie--as most featurettes turn out to be.
	www.needcoffee.com /html/dvd/nwgirl.htm (605 words)

	Bingham Genealogy - Bingham ancestors
		Isaac was born in Berkshire, Tioga, New York, 6 February 1815, and died in Ogden, 29 April 1890.
		By Lucy, he sired a girl (unnamed), John, Lorenzo, [Judge] Harry, Lucy Ann (Hill), George Azro (Justice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire), Edward Franklin (Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court under President Cleveland), and Edith Cordelia (Bellew).
		Abel Bingham, born in Norwich, New London, Connecticut, 25 June 1669 son of Thomas and Mary (Rudd) Bingham; died in Windham, Windham, Connecticut, 5 March 1745.
	www.familyhistorypages.com /Bingham.htm (8476 words)

	channel4.com/film - New Waterford Girl
		In the mid-1970s Canadian mining town of New Waterford, Nova Scotia, all the teenage girls are either pushing prams or looking forward to the next alcohol fuelled make-out party.
		Things look up when Mooney befriends her new neighbour Lou (Spencer Nairn) - a tough cookie from the Bronx who gains popularity when her secret talent as a boxer is discovered.
		Indeed, writer Tricia Fish based the story on her life growing up in a catholic family in New Waterford.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=106441 (282 words)

	New Waterford Girl
		Set in the 70's NEW WATERFORD GIRL is about a 15 year old teenager, Mooney Pottie (Liane Balaban), who lives in the windswept town of New Waterford, Nova Scotia, Canada, amongst a strong Catholic community.
		She finds it difficult to conform to the way of life there, and makes friends with her new neighbour, a tough girl boxer from the Bronx called Lou (Tara Spencer-Nairn).
		Her teacher, Cecil Sweeney (Andrew McCarthy), suceeds in getting her a scholarship at a New York school but her parents, Francis (Nicholas Campbell) and Cookie (Mary Walsh) won't let her go so she devises a plan to out manoeuvre them.
	www.phase9.tv /movies/newwaterfordgirl.htm (166 words)

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