Screenplay: Barry Pearson
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Barry Pearson. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Iron Road (TV Miniseries)
2008 · Series · 180 min. · Canada
Direction David Wu
Cast Sun Li · Peter O'Toole · Sam Neill · Luke Macfarlane
Plot TV Miniseries (2008). 2 Episodes. A young Chinese girl with no money, disguised as a boy, manages to work on the construction of a railroad in the Rocky Mountains thanks...
5.5
275 votes
5.5
275 votes
Bloody Birthday
1981 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Ed Hunt
Cast Lori Lethin · Melinda Cordell · Julie Brown · Joe Penny
Plot In 1970, three children are born at the height of a total eclipse. Due to the sun and moon blocking Saturn, which controls emotions, they have become heartless killers ten...
4.8
461 votes
4.8
461 votes
The Brain
1988 · Movie · 94 min. · Canada
Direction Ed Hunt
Cast Tom Bresnahan · Cynthia Preston · David Gale · George Buza
Plot Dr. Blake runs a TV show called "Independent Thinkers", which is sort of a Scientology-like self-help/religion program. But he's not making his audience think any more independently - with the...
4.3
106 votes
4.3
106 votes
Plague (M-3: The Gemini Strain)
1978 · Movie · 88 min. · Canada
Direction Ed Hunt
Cast Daniel Pilon · Kate Reid · Céline Lomez · Michael J. Reynolds
Plot A research assistant carries out a forbidden experiment which creates a deadly bacteria that kills her. It then spreads throughout the city causing an agonising death on its victims...
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Isaac Littlefeathers (Fighter Kid)
1984 · Movie · 100 min. · Canada
Direction Les Rose
Cast Michelle Thrush · Scott Hylands · Lynda Mason Green · Lou Jacobi
Plot Story of a young half-breed boy, the son of a hockey player and an Indian woman, who is adopted by a Jewish shopkeeper, but finds himself torn between the different...
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For the Record (TV Series)
1976 · Series · 60 min. · Canada
Direction Peter Pearson · Don Haldane · Claude Jutra · Francis Mankiewicz
Cast Heath Lamberts · Mavor Moore · David Gardner · Kenneth Welsh
Plot A collection of docudrama-style short stories on diverse but socially-relevant (and very Canadian) topics such as unemployment, euthanasia, spousal abuse, televangelists, aboriginal issues, and anglophone-francophone relations. This series attracted most...
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Firebird 2015 AD
1981 · Movie · 97 min. · Canada
Direction David M. Robertson
Cast Darren McGavin · Doug McClure · George Touliatos · Robert Wisden
Plot In one of many unpopular and unsupported policy decisions, the US government of the near future outlaws vehicle petrol in an effort to curb the overuse of limited natural resources...
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