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Sarah Ellen Polley OC (born January 8, 1979) is a Canadian filmmaker, political activist and retired actress. She first garnered attention as a child actress for her role as Ramona Quimby in the television series Ramona, based on Beverly Cleary's books. This subsequently led to her role as Sara Stanley in the Canadian television series Road to Avonlea (1990–1996). She has starred in many feature films, including The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), Exotica (1994), The Sweet Hereafter (1997), Guinevere (1999), Go (1999), The Weight of Water (2000), No Such Thing (2001), My Life Without Me (2003), Dawn of the Dead (2004), Splice (2009), and Mr. Nobody (2009).
Polley made her feature film directorial debut with Away from Her (2006), for which she won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Director and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Polley's second film, Take This Waltz (2011), premiered at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival, followed by her first documentary film, Stories We Tell (2012). She also wrote the miniseries Alias Grace, based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood. In 2022, Polley wrote and directed the film Women Talking, based on the 2018 novel of the same name by Miriam Toews, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Most Popular Sarah Polley Trailers
Total trailers found: 60
21 March 2004
When Simon awakens in the hospital after surviving a near-fatal accident, amnesia has erased the last two years from his memory.
12 September 1999
A young girl from an affluent family rebels and becomes involved with a much older photographer.
19 March 2004
A group of survivors take refuge in a shopping mall after the world is taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies.
06 November 2009
Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.
28 July 1989
Children's book authors Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff's most beloved elephant comes to the big screen in this animated family tale.
28 April 2024
Can a work of art remain relevant 200 years after its creation? Ludwig van Beethoven’s last completed symphony proves it’s possible.
08 April 2008
This is an all new feature length documentary, with interviews from almost everyone involved with the production of the film.
23 December 2022
A group of women in an isolated religious colony struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony's men.
05 September 1997
William, a once obese and troubled teen, goes back to his family's home after being gone, without word, for ten years and finds it (and his family) haunted with his past.
23 October 1998
Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.
14 September 2004
Joe and his siblings have a couple of problems. First off, their stepparents are despicably evil. Secondly, they seemed to have killed them.
22 November 1985
Ginny Grainger, a young mother, rediscovers the joy and beauty of Christmas, thanks to the unshakable faith of her six-year-old daughter Abbie and Gideon, Ginny's very own guardian angel.
04 May 2007
Fiona and Grant have been married for nearly 50 years. They have to face the fact that Fiona’s absent-mindedness is a symptom of Alzheimer’s disease.
03 June 2010
Elsa and Clive, two young rebellious scientists, defy legal and ethical boundaries and forge ahead with a dangerous experiment: splicing together human and animal DNA to create a new organism.
25 November 2011
Twenty-eight-year-old Margot is happily married to Lou, a good-natured cookbook author. But when Margot meets Daniel, a handsome artist who lives across the street, their mutual attraction is undeniable.
04 December 1998
Tom and Jerry are two hit men, they work by day at a third-rate second-hand car dealership. Tom is a veteran and Jerry is a novice in their business, and their attitude toward their profession differs a lot.
22 May 2004
Cliff receives an unusual 18th birthday gift from his younger sister — marijuana, alcohol, a subway token and the mission to lose his virginity.
07 December 1988
An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.
01 January 2003
Manhattan prosecutor Nick is charged with looking into the untimely death of city resident Matt, a musician who had AIDS.
01 January 1990
After her father is accused of embezzlement, wealthy Sara Stanley is sent to live with her deceased mother's relatives on Prince Edward Island.
15 November 2000
Commissioned by the Toronto International Film Festival to mark the event's 25th anniversary in September 2000, the "Preludes" program consisted of ten short films by Canadian directors which were inspired in some way by the festival.
09 April 1999
A supermarket clerk decides to step in for an absent drug dealer, setting off an explosive, comedic chain of events.
25 August 2005
Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women.
10 May 1987
A New York cop becomes obsessed with finding his wife's rapist.
18 January 1997
Josephine has her eye on Joe, a hot-headed, petty criminal who taps phones for a living. When she finally worms her way into his heart she realises it's not a nice place to be.
14 April 1999
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
12 September 2010
Ten years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in the course of one night.
10 August 2014
Using rare footage and exclusive interviews with filmmakers from all over the globe, "Reel Herstory" corrects the historic notion that women behind the scenes in motion pictures held peripheral careers compared with their male counterparts.
29 September 1994
In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor.
15 September 1999
Several innocent persons are hurt after two robbers, fleeing from the police, run into a neighborhood cafe.
14 September 2005
The blood-soaked tale of a Norse warrior's battle against the great and murderous troll, Grendel. Heads will roll.
25 September 1987
It is 1957. J.C. Cullen is a young man from a small town, with a talent for winning at craps, who leaves for the big city to work as a professional gambler.
07 March 2003
A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies without telling her family of her illness.
07 November 2019
The views and thoughts of Canadian writer Margaret Atwood have never been more relevant than today. Readers turn to her work for answers as they confront the rise of authoritarian leaders, deal with increasingly intrusive technologies, and discuss climate change.
27 March 1987
A detective tries to track down a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes while at the same time having to deal with his girlfriend's mental problems, which are gradually deteriorating into a split personality.
25 September 1987
While working in a greenhouse, a man receives an insect bite after touching an exotic plant. Immediately, he falls ill and is taken to an emergency room where the doctors diagnose him as suffering from an unknown bacteria, and a strange parasite which emerges from his mouth as a large slimy wormlike creature.
01 January 2022
A community turns turns against a respected prep school teacher and his family after he is arrested e
30 April 2004
Shane Bradley, who is fixated on ideas of luck and destiny, tries to win the girl of his dreams. After their relationship falters, Shane begins to think he might be unlucky and turns to gambling as an outlet for his obsession.
06 September 1997
Powerful story about love, struggle and passion of an over protective mother and her piano prodigy.
15 September 2000
Story of the same couple, first in their teenage years and then in their twilight years, paradoxically set in the same time during the backdrop of the Gulf War in the Middle East.
07 September 2000
A festival is a concentration of hope. Audiences hungering for something startingly new, famously familiar or just plain "good".
15 December 2005
A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.
01 January 1986
The year is 1949 and reporter Hugh Jameson is looking for a story. He focuses on Emma Porter, a woman who was accused of the axe murder of her father thirty seven years earlier.
25 September 1997
A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead.
01 March 1987
An armful of destitute orphans transported to the New World at the turn of the century. This is the turbulent and moving story of four British 'bricks for Empire building' - based on the memoirs of some of the 100,000 'home children' who helped build the new Canada.
29 March 1998
How can a smart middle class girl suddenly turn into a devoted right wing debater? That's what happens with Catherine when she meets the charismatic leaders of the neo-nazi organization NIM.
03 February 2002
Bobby is about to abandon Tessa, but in a suicidal panic she persuades him to stay one last night and reenact the good old times in front of a video camera for posterity.
29 December 2000
A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come.
29 March 2002
A young journalist journeys to Iceland to find her missing fiancé only to encounter a mythical creature who longs to die.
09 September 2000
A newspaper photographer researches an 1873 double homicide and finds her own life paralleling that of a witness who survived the tragic ordeal.
23 October 2016
The Secret Path is an animated film adaptation of Gord Downie's album and Jeff Lemire's graphic novel.
02 January 1999
Short drama by Sarah Polley. The film was made for the "On the Fly 4" film festival. The film was shot and edited in one day.
12 October 2012
Canadian actress and filmmaker Sarah Polley investigates certain secrets related to her mother, interviewing a group of family members and friends whose reliability varies depending of their implication in the events, which are remembered in different ways; so a trail of questions remains to be answered, because memory is always changing and the discovery of truth often depends on who is telling the tale.
17 September 1999
A black comedy, Don't Think Twice is a disturbing and profound examination of the morals of a man forced to choose between lover and family.
02 August 2000
Two brothers in their early 20s, one black, one white, each the other's keeper since their family was torn apart by a decade old tragedy.
06 May 2007
When Canadian director Sturla Gunnarsson set upon Iceland to film Beowulf & Grendel starring Gerard Butler and Stellan Skarsgard in 2004, they expected the usual complication involved in making a movie, but what they encountered made them wonder if the Norse gods were actually working against them.
01 March 2003
A man stuck in a rut takes his girlfriend to a medieval festival.
25 September 1992
A mouse from the streets and a church mouse try to help a priest and an organist save Christmas by composing a Christmas carol.
29 August 1989
In 1935 Toronto, Jane Stuart's mother has taken ill, and the two of them have temporarily moved in with her rich, snobbish grandmother, where Jane is verbally abused and her mother bullied.
01 January 1996
A collection of 7 animation short films inspired by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
