Trudeau II: Maverick in the Making (2005)
Actors:
Benoît Mathieu (miscellaneous crew),
John Dunsworth (actor),
Eric Peterson (actor),
Richard Donat (actor),
Jonathan Goldsmith (composer),
Karl Pruner (actor),
Nigel Bennett (actor),
Nicholas Campbell (actor),
Stephen J. Cannell (actor),
Robert Bockstael (actor),
Jeremy Akerman (actor),
Marcel Sabourin (actor),
Brian Heighton (actor),
Gary Levert (actor),
Allan F. Nicholls (actor),
Plot: Born into privilege and wealth, Pierre Trudeau was a boy who grew to value something more in his life. Disgusted with the tyrannical regime of Maurice Duplesis' governance of Quebec with the eager approval of the Catholic Church, Trudeau gains his basic ideals of rights and justice as he joins the fight for a more open society. Although initially hampered by his naive zealousness and his indulgent playboy habits, we see Trudeau gain the skills and the contacts that would help him become the Prime Minister that would redefine a nation.
Keywords: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, canada, canadian, character-name-in-title, civil-liberties, civil-rights, conscription
Genres:
Biography,
Drama,
Trudeau (2002)
Actors:
Patrick McKenna (actor),
Aidan Devine (actor),
Don McKellar (actor),
John Dunsworth (actor),
Jeremy Akerman (actor),
Raymond Cloutier (actor),
John Maclaren (actor),
Brett Kelly (actor),
Robert Bockstael (actor),
Michael Copeman (actor),
Richard Donat (actor),
Colm Feore (actor),
Raymond Bouchard (actor),
Peter Outerbridge (actor),
John Neville (actor),
Plot: In 1968, Canada saw the election of a Prime Minister unlike any other in its history, Pierre Elliot Trudeau. Handsome, witty, idealistic, flamboyant, courageous and debonair Trudeau rides on an unheard of crest of popularity nicknamed "Trudeaumania" that sweeps him into the highest political office in the country. At the same time, he develops a passionate romance with a young Margaret Sinclair that soon leads to marriage. However, events would put both Pierre's political and personal life under the gun as he must struggle with traumatic events like the terrorist crisis that grips Quebec in October 1970 which forces him to declare temporary martial law being but the first of the major challenges. At the same time, the demands of being a Prime Minister's wife takes its own toll on Margaret as her relationship with Pierre begins to disintergrate. Eventually, both pressures do their harm as the couple divorces and Pierre's political standing falls even as his Quebec Seperatist foes rise in power in Quebec and threaten to tear the country apart. With soul searching and difficult confrontations both in the political and private spheres, Pierre Trudeau faces the greatest challenges of his career. Those tasks of fighting to keep Quebec in Canada and then striving to bring home the Canadian Constitution complete with an entrenched Charter of Rights and Freedoms will leave an indelible mark on the nation even while he struggles to reconcile, however partially, with the woman he loved.
Keywords: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, canada, canadian, character-name-in-title, constitution, constitutional-rights, constitutionality-of-law, ethnic-conflict
Genres:
Biography,
Drama,