Max Morrow

A young boy tries to get a pair of Christmas shoes for his dying mother, while a lawyer tries to deal with the break-up of his marriage. (imdb)

In the early hours of December 6, 1917, the Mont-Blanc, a French-owned freighter loaded to the gunnels with thousands of tons of TNT, collided with a Belgian relief ship and exploded in the Halifax Harbour. The explosion was so vast that it killed more than 2,000 people, injured 9,000 more and completely flattened two square kilometers of northern Halifax. Out of the carnage came stories of small sacrifices and great heroism. (rogersplus.ca)

Sarah Russell, a 23-year-old aspiring medical school student, visits her family to share some important news but instead finds herself confronting a difficult period from her past.

The tale of Randall, a neurotic talking goose, who is kidnapped by Congreve Maddox (, the principal of the local elementary school. Maddox plans to fatten up Randall so that he can cook the bird and enter him in a culinary contest in Banff, Alberta. Together with his sister, Emily, and some classmates, the sensitive boy Will hatches a plot: they'll kidnap Congreve's mother and arrange a hostage exchange for the goose. (imdb)