Gary Farmer

Country: Canada
Total Credits at Criticker: 34 (Actor), 1 (Director)
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This humorous and poignant exploration of family, love, dignity and class division is the story of Henri, a teenage girl who lives in poverty with her mother, but is drawn to the world on the other side of the tracks. (Evergreen Films Inc.)
Nick Wells, a professional criminal, decides to leave the business for good, since he nearly got caught on his last job. His plan is to live in peace with his girl Diane, running his Montreal jazz club NYC. Soon Max, his good friend and financial partner in the illegal affairs, comes along with an offer Nick can't refuse: A historical and priceless French sceptre has been discovered while being smuggled into the country... (imdb)
In the shadow of Mt. Rushmore, one of America's favorite tourist attractions lies one of her poorest counties, The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. For Police officer Rudy Yellow Lodge, the painful legacy of Indian existence is brought home every night as he locks up drunk and disorderly Indians, which frequently includes his own alcoholic brother, Mogie. (First Look Features)
Though Victor and Thomas have lived their entire young lives in the same tiny town, they couldn't have less in common! But when Victor is urgently called away, it's Thomas who comes up with the money to pay for his trip. There's just one thing Victor has to do: take Thomas along for the ride! (Miramax)
A calmly lucid re-telling of Charles Dickens' classic Oliver Twist, updated to current times and moved out of the poor house and onto the streets of Toronto. (Strand Releasing)
On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange North American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
Social realism regarding struggles of reservation-dwelling Native Americans in the North Central states of the US. Main character is an introspective and lovable person in a process of seeking pride and identity through tradtional and mystical means of gathering power.(imdb)
An Indian police officer is mixed up in murder and drug smuggling on the reservation. (imdb)
Based on the award-winning novel by Howard Frank Mosher. Legendary actor/songwriter Kris Kristofferson stars as schemer and dreamer Quebec Bill Bonhomme -- in a spellbinding tale of high-stakes whiskey-smuggling, a family's mysterious past, and a young boy's rite of passage. (Kingdom County Productions)
Ed misses his mother who has been dead for a year. He has lived almost his whole life with his mother, so when a stranger appears one day from a company called "Happy People Ltd." and claims that they can bring his mother back for $1000, he doesn't think long before he agrees... (imdb)
DreamKeeper (2003) - TV Movie
In South Dakota, in an Indian reservation, an old storyteller Indian (August Schellenberger) asks his grandson Shane (Eddie Spears), who is in trouble owing money to some bad guys, to take his old pony and him to Albuquerque to the great powwow, an Indian meeting. While traveling, Grandpa tells mysterious Indian tales of love, friendship and magic. (imdb)
Blown Away (1992) - TV Movie
Teenage beauty tries to convince her new boyfriend that her father murdered her mother and that he should die too. (imdb)
A guardian angel has 24 hours to convince a soul that life on Earth is worth the effort. (imdb)
Believing he's been called to hear a dying prisoner's final confession, bishop Bilodeau (Marcel Sabourin) walks into a dangerous trap and is forced to confront the truth about his dark past. At the jail, Bilodeau learns that the convict is his childhood friend and one-time crush, Simon. Inmates kidnap the bishop and force him to watch a reenactment of the long-ago love triangle and youthful betrayal that led to Simon's imprisonment. (Netflix)
Coyote Waits (2003) - TV Movie
According to old Navajo lore, "Coyote is always out there waiting, and Coyote is always hungry." Produced by Robert Redford, this thriller with a slightly supernatural bent stars Wes Studi and Adam Beach as tribal cops Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, who try to uncover the truth about the death of a fellow detective, Delbert Nez, whom they believe may have been killed by someone other than the obvious. Could it be the mysterious Coyote?
500 Nations (1995) - TV Mini-Series
his comprehensive documentary chronicles the history of the indigenous people of North and Central America, beginning with the pre-Colombian era through their brushes with European colonization, capping off with the defeat of the North American Plains Indians in the 19th century. The remarkable story unfolds through transcripts depicting the historical events, as well as first-hand recollections, photographs and computer reenactments.
Takes place in 1995, the year of the second referendum on the separation of Quebec. In the dead of winter, a serial killer is on the loose in the small Montreal neighborhood of Notre Dame de Grace. The tenants of an old apartment house must figure out who they can trust and who they can't.
Bear Tung (2010) - Short Film
A press conference is held in the far north between a landowner, hunter and the animals. (imdb)
A young man with cystic fibrosis, along with the sister of a fallen friend, goes in search of a legendary healing shrine in Mexico. (imdb)
Moonshine Highway (1996) - TV Movie
During prohibition days, many hillbilly moonshine stills were hidden in hills of middle America. Jed Muldoon was about the best runner of moonshine whiskey around. Usually the local yokels were kinfolk of the runners and looked the other way while they were doing business. Naturally, the federal government was missing out on some tax money and were determined to shut them down. There's three things the government will never control, and one is making home brew. (Richard Jones )
Martin Bishop takes a job recording the hours worked by men building a short railway near the Great Slave Lake in the far north of Canada. Here he confronts a brutal foreman who forces Bishop to consider the practical difference between right and wrong in a wilderness where the strong bully the weak, and savagery is deployed by both the weak and the strong in order to survive.
Virgil First Raise, an alcoholic half-breed Blackfoot, wakes up from a blackout and is told that his wife has left him, taking his rifle and electric razor with her and setting him off on a boozy, hallucinatory quest to recover the items. (366weirdmovies)
A loner and cook (John Magaro) has traveled west and joined a group of fur trappers in Oregon Territory, though he only finds connection with a Chinese immigrant (Orion Lee). The men collaborate on a business, although its longevity is reliant upon the participation of a wealthy landowner's prized milking cow. (A24)
Based on the story of renowned butterfly expert Robert Pyle (David Cross) who embarked on a life-changing trek through one of America's most important unprotected wildlands in the summer of 1995.
Resident Alien (2021) - TV Series
- Homesick (S01 E02)
- Secrets (S01 E03)
- Birds of a Feather (S01 E04)
- Love Language (S01 E05)
- End of the World as We Know It (S01 E08)
- Heroes of Patience (S01 E10)
- Old Friends (S02 E01)
- The Wire (S02 E02)
- Radio Harry (S02 E04)
- Family Day (S02 E05)
- Escape from New York (S02 E07)
- Alien Dinner Party (S02 E08)
- Autopsy (S02 E09)
- The Weight (S02 E11)
- The Alien Within (S02 E12)
- Harry, a Parent (S02 E13)
- Cat and Mouse (S02 E14)
- Best of Enemies (S02 E15)
- I Believe in Aliens (S02 E16)
- Lone Wolf (S03 E01)
- The Upper Hand (S03 E02)
- 141 Seconds (S03 E03)
- Avian Flu (S03 E04)
A troubled but well-intentioned father who has recently separated from his wife runs off with his trans son into the Montana wilderness after his ex-wife's refusal to let their son live as his authentic self.
Forever Knight (1992) - TV Series
- Dark Knight (S01 E01)
- Dark Knight: The Second Chapter (S01 E02)
- For I Have Sinned (S01 E03)
- Last Act (S01 E04)
- Fatal Mistake (S01 E20)
- 1966 (S01 E21)
- Love You to Death (S01 E22)
- Dance by the Light of the Moon (S01 E05)
- Dying to Know You (S01 E06)
- False Witness (S01 E07)
- Cherry Blossoms (S01 E08)
- I Will Repay (S01 E09)
- Dead Air (S01 E10)
- Hunters (S01 E11)
- Dead Issue (S01 E12)
- Father Figure (S01 E13)
- Spin Doctor (S01 E14)
- Dying for Fame (S01 E15)
- Only the Lonely (S01 E16)
- Unreality TV (S01 E17)
- Feeding the Beast (S01 E18)
- If Looks Could Kill (S01 E19)
The alleys of downtown Manhattan become a modern killing field when corpses begin turning up, disfigured and gruesomely posed to appear as pieces of art. A struggling musician, is hired to compose for a patron of the arts, and thinks his dreams are coming true. But as the body count continues to rise, the clues surrounding the murders oddly begin to lead police closer and closer to Peter. Suddenly, all eyes are on him and he must find the real killer, before he becomes his next masterpiece.
Twenty-five long years after his time in the limelight, former child actor Cody Lightning tries to revive his fortunes with a self-produced sequel to Smoke Signals in this smart, irreverent new comedy (imdb)
The Curse (2023) - TV Series
A newlywed couple struggle to make their vision for eco-living a reality in a small New Mexico town.