Happiness Is Loving Your Teacher
1977 Canadian film
- 1977 (1977)
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Happiness Is Loving Your Teacher is a Canadian short drama film directed by John N. Smith and released in 1977.[1] The film stars Martin Kevan as Mr. Todrick, a wheelchair-using substitute teacher facing an unruly high school class, and Marina Dimakopoulos as Tony, a student and class leader who comes to regret how she treated Mr. Todrick after she is given detention.[2]
Dimakopoulos won the Canadian Film Award for Best Actress in a Non-Feature at the 28th Canadian Film Awards.[3]
References
- ^ Brian J. Low, NFB Kids: Portrayals of Children by the National Film Board of Canada, 1939-1989. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006. ISBN 9780889207202. p. 177.
- ^ Richard Labonté, "NFB short gets message across". Ottawa Citizen, June 25, 1980.
- ^ Maria Topalovich, And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-7737-3238-1. p. 119.
External links
- Happiness Is Loving Your Teacher at IMDb
- Watch Happiness Is Loving Your Teacher on the NFB website
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Films directed by John N. Smith
- Happiness Is Loving Your Teacher (1977)
- Revolution's Orphans (1979)
- First Winter (1981)
- The Masculine Mystique (1984)
- Sitting in Limbo (1986)
- Train of Dreams (1987)
- Welcome to Canada (1989)
- The Boys of St. Vincent (1992)
- Dieppe (1993)
- Dangerous Minds (1995)
- A Cool, Dry Place (1998)
- Random Passage (2002)
- Geraldine's Fortune (2004)
- Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story (2006)
- The Englishman's Boy (2008)
- Love and Savagery (2009)
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