Des Walsh

Des Walsh

Movies for Des Walsh...

Under the Weather
Title: Under the Weather
Character: Phil
Released: September 19, 2020
Type: Movie
There is no ‘best thing’ about having terminal cancer, but for forty-year-old Joe, being welcomed back into his childhood home, feeling the warmth and support of his sister and her husband and observing his young niece’s blossoming emotional maturity seem to give new meaning to a life he feels he had wasted. With unexpected humour, stark realism and quiet insight, Under The Weather is an uplifting meditation on one man’s graceful surrender to the inevitable and the palpable impact his passing has on those he leaves behind.
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Little Orphans
Title: Little Orphans
Character: Uncle Billy
Released: September 18, 2020
Type: Movie
The wedding of their youngest sister, Janet, brings Gwen and Kay home to St. John’s, Newfoundland. While Janet struggles to hide her family’s dysfunction, Kay can’t help but create chaos wherever she goes and Gwen finds herself paralyzed by a past secret. The complicated web of relationships between the sisters, their Aunt Maureen, their absent mother, and Kay’s young daughter Billie, is only illuminated by the wedding. Gwen’s attempts to get Kay to take responsibility for her daughter highlights her own abandonment of her ex, Tom, leading them all to a not-so-perfect storm of a reception.
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Riverhead
Title: Riverhead
Character: Burt
Released: September 16, 2016
Type: Movie
A blood feud divides a small town in rural Newfoundland.
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Keystone
Title: Keystone
Character: Jack
Released: April 1, 2016
Type: Movie
When Jack begins to forget, he visits Keystone, an organization with an unlikely mandate: making your most important memories truly unforgettable.
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Cast No Shadow
Title: Cast No Shadow
Character: Ricky's Father
Released: September 13, 2014
Type: Movie
One wild and tumultuous summer in the life of young Jude Traynor as he attempts to navigate his way through a life of delinquency and petty crime.
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Hold Fast
Title: Hold Fast
Character: Granddad (Jack)
Released: July 1, 2013
Type: Movie
Two teenage boys escape an unhappy home, embarking on a perilous journey of self-discovery that takes them deep into the Newfoundland wilderness.
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Still Rowdy After All These Years
Title: Still Rowdy After All These Years
Released: September 9, 2011
Type: Movie
A documentary retrospective on the prolific career of acclaimed Canadian actor, writer and director Gordon Pinsent.
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Spoiled
Title: Spoiled
Character: Dad
Released: October 20, 2008
Type: Movie
A young girl named Pearl tries to help her father navigate the world of online dating.
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Random Passage
Title: Random Passage
Character: Captain Brennan
Released: January 27, 2002
Type: Movie
This award winning miniseries traces the difficult passage of young Mary Keane (Aoife McMahon) from servitude in Ireland to the squalor of rough-and-tumble Newfoundland in the early 1800s. Escaping attempted rape and abuse, Mary moves on with her infant daughter to find shelter at a remote fishing station run by Thomas Hutchings (Colm Meaney). In a time and place where life and death are a hair's breadth apart, Mary joins the community's struggle for survival against sickness and starvation. All of the Cape's people are fugitives of one kind or another, but by pulling together through hardships and tragedies, they forge a new life of hope - and even love.
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Rain, Drizzle, and Fog
Title: Rain, Drizzle, and Fog
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, is North America's most easterly landfall. For half a millennium, its perfect harbour has provided a safe refuge in the middle of the treacherous North Atlantic. For 300 years of its history it was an actual crime to try and settle--Newfoundland was the private preserve of British fishing merchants. But people stayed, despite the colonial masters, despite the lack of law and order, despite hellish weather and raging seas. And the city grew--lurching through centuries of crisis, disaster, privation. For filmmaker Rosemary House, "This is still a hard rock land, a dirty old town at the back of beyond. And yet the St. John's townie is so proud, you'd swear we lived in Paris." In this documentary, she explores her city with the help of six locals, Mary Walsh, Andy Jones, Anita Best, Brian Hennessey, Ed Riche, Des Walsh, writers and performers all. (Source: National Film Board)
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Finding Mary March
Title: Finding Mary March
Released: August 31, 1988
Type: Movie
This film discusses the search for the last remains of Demasduit (Mary March), one of the last of the Indigenous Beothuk people, set in the Red Indian Lake area of Central Newfoundland. A young girl, Bernadette Buchans, believes that she is related to Mary March. Throughout the whole film, Bernadette and her father Ted are searching for the grave of her mother. An archaeologist/ photographer, Nancy George, accompanies them and she also believes that she has family connections to the Beothuks.