Gordon Pinsent

Gordon Pinsent
Country: Canada
Total Credits at Criticker: 29 (Actor)
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The Shipping News
Based on E. Annie Proulx's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, the story traces one man's extraordinary journey to self-discovery when he returns to his ancestral home on the coast of Newfoundland. (Miramax Films)
Saint Ralph
A funny, heartwarming and inspirational tale of a boy who dares to dream big. (Samuel Goldwyn Films)
Nothing
What if you wished everyone - and everything - would just go away!
The Thomas Crown Affair
A debonair, adventuresome bank executive believes he has pulled off the perfect multi-million dollar heist, only to match wits with a sexy insurance investigator who will do anything to get her man. (imdb)
Colossus: The Forbin Project
An artificially intelligent supercomputer is developed and activated, only to reveal that it has a sinister agenda of its own.
The Old Man and the Sea
This film is such a milestone that it's a shame that it will probably never be screened again in it's original IMAX format. Petrov's animation technique involves oil painting on glass, which most animation geeks are familiar with. When combined with IMAX the result is stunning... (Amazon.com)
Away from Her
This beautiful yet unconventional story of a couple coming to grips with the onset of memory loss is adapted from celebrated author Alice Munro's short story "The Bear Came Over the Mountain." (Lionsgate)
Blacula
Interior decorators buy the coffin of an African prince bitten by Dracula centuries before and bring it back to Los Angeles. The African prince starts feeding his hunger while following a woman who looks like his departed wife. (imdb)
The Devil at Your Heels
Devil at Your Heels, traces the trials of stuntman Ken Carter who attempts a death defying aerial jump in a car. Not content with a normal jump, Ken Carter attempts a jump from Canada to the USA. (imdb)
Babar: The Movie
Animated feature starring the famous elephant
Incident on a Dark Street
A small-time hood is murdered just as he is about to blow the whistle on an organized crime ring. (imdb)
Pippi Longstocking
Pippi is a little girl who lives alone in her house, while her father is sailing the seas. With Pippi we meet her horse, her monkey and her two friends Tommy and Anika. Together they go on many journeys through the neighborhood. (imdb)
The Confessor
CHRISTIAN SLATER plays a worldly and urbane priest who is forced to challenge his comfortable existence as an ecclesiastical spin-doctor when he comes to believe in the innocence of a young priest accused of murder. His only ally, a journalist, is also his former sweetheart... (imdb)
Blood Clan
A Scottish girl is being adopted by the judge who has condemned all the members of her family to death. But as she remembers all of this she commits a lot of atrocities. (imdb)
Fallen Angel
When his father dies, Terry (Gary Sinese) returns to the house where he grew up, planning to stay only long enough to clean and settle the estate. Yet something indescribable keeps him there longer than expected. Soon, he is reunited with memories and people from his past and his life is changed forever. (imdb)
Newman\
Police officer Newman has not gotten the reputation of a straight arrow by avoiding conflict when fighting for right. His honesty is put to a strong test when he and his partner discover an international drug ring involving some of the police department's highest ranking officers. (imdb)
Silence of the North
One woman's true story of love and courage can give all people hope (imdb)
The Grand Seduction
In order to secure a vital factory contract, the residents of a small Newfoundland fishing village conspire to charm a disgraced big-city doctor into becoming the town's full-time physician. (tiff.net)
The Suicide\
An unsuccessful middle-aged college professor commits suicide, leaving his wife to cope with guilt, shame, and an angry teenage son who blames her for his father's death. (imdb)
The Spine
The Spine (2009) - Short Film
Uses a twisted, beautiful and highly original visual aesthetic to look at the ways individuals evolve, adapt and break. (imdb)
Flight of the Butterflies
A film of hundreds of millions of monarchs in their remote overwintering sanctuaries and along their migratory routes from Canada and across the U.S. to Mexico. (imdb)
Big News from Grand Rock
Small-town journalist Leonard Crane starts making up stories to save his job but gets in trouble when one of his fabricated news pieces turns out to be true. (imdb)
Quarantined
A family of doctors that runs a medical clinic finds itself up against a sudden cholera epidemic and a movie star who refuses to accept treatment for the disease.
Due South
Due South (1994) - TV Series
The cases of a cynical American police detective and a upright Royal Canadian Mounted Police constable in the city of Chicago. (imdb)
Babar
Babar (1989) - TV Series
The adventures of the King of the elephants, his family, and friends. (imdb)
Pirate\
In 1950s Grey Rocks, Nova Scotia, a mysterious old seadog named Captain Charles Johnson comes to port and takes up residence in the inn of Kerstin Hawkins and her son, Jim. Once there, young Jim realizes that there is far more to that old sailor than meets the eye as Johnson offers to help on a school project about pirates in the region in ways Jim never imagined. Along the way, Capt. Johnson learns of the threat that a modern day pirate, the rapacious Mr. Moehner. (imdb)
Blackwood
Blackwood (1976) - Short Film
David Blackwood lives in Newfoundland and makes etchings in the tradition of Rembrandt and Goya. This Oscar-nominated film shows him producing some of his etchings with his Newfoundland inspirations as well. (imdb)
Only God Knows
The sponsors of a drug-rehabilitation center stage a robbery to maintain funding of the facility, but the loot turns out to be syndicate-owned.
The Outer Limits