To point out that Marion Bridge is a woman's flick is not to criticize or demean. It simply states a most obvious fact.

Though men are responsible for most of the tragedy in this Canadian film, opening at the Princess Theatre today, they do not appear. They're always somewhere just off-camera or, if they are glimpsed, it's in the corner of the camera's eye.
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In Marion Bridge, three sisters dance around unfortunate family history while their mother lies dying.

Molly Parker plays the youngest sister, Agnes, the one who escaped Cape Breton but has come home to try to get her life in order. Rebecca Jenkins is Theresa, the oldest sister; she and her husband are breaking up.
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