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The Englishman's Boy (2008-)

The Englishman's Boy is a complicated tale that unravels over two centuries, taking place in Saskatchewan's Cypress Hills in 1873 and in 1920s Hollywood. Michael Therriault plays a young writer who is hired by a ruthless movie mogul Damon Ira Chance (Bob Hoskins) to track down a grizzled Western actor by the name of Shorty McAdoo (Nicholas Campbell) to try to mine the old guy's tall tales for a movie project. We learn that McAdoo's past is tied to an historical atrocity that occurred some fifty years earlier in 1873. That was when "the Englishman's boy" (newcomer Michael Eisner), hooked up with a psychopathic hunter named Tom Hardwick (R.H. Thomson) and his posse of misfits. On the hunt for a group of horse thieves, the posse massacred the Assiniboine Indians in the Cypress Hills in what is now Saskatchewan. The mini-series slowly reveals the connection between the lonely, footloose Englishman's boy and McAdoo, the movie cowboy. The screenplay was written and rewritten by Vanderhaeghe from his Governor General's Award-winning book — initially as a feature film and then as a mini-series.

240 minutes - mini-series

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MAIN CAST:

Bob Hoskins
Nicholas Campbell
Michael Therriault
Don McKellar
Tantoo Cardinal
Amy Matysio
Rémy Girard
R.H. Thomson
Adrien Dorval
David McNally
Shannon Jardine
Jonathon Young
Craig March
Ted Dykstra
Dan Lett
Mike Ennis
Cavan Cunningham
Stephen Park
Dylan Smith
Guy Vanderhaeghe
Michael Eisner
Rob van Meenen
Robert Benz
Sera-Lys McArthur
Tyrone Tootoosis
Larry Heisler
Ryland Alexander
Kent Allen
Chris Ratz
Don Gillespie
Daryn DeWalt
Lorne Duquette
Bill Hall
Ian Brodland

Keven DeWalt
Janine Stener
John N. Smith
Guy Vanderhaeghe
Pierre Letarte
Jackie Dzuda
Rob Bryanton
Todd Byranton

Damon Ira Chance
Shorty McAdoo
Harry Vincent
Coster
Little Soldier's Wife
Beautiful Young Woman
Hotel Owner
Tom Hardwick
Fitz
Philander Vogle
Mrs. Farwell
John Dawe
George Hammond
Hank
Able Farwell
Assistant Director
Southern Gentleman
Scotty McDougall
Ed Grace
Bartender
The Englishman's Boy
Character 'Cowboy Extra'
Captain
Young Assiniboine Girl
Little Soldier
Cowboy in Saloon
Deshane
John Evans
Wylie
John Duval
Warden
First Shoot
John Bell
Cowboy