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The 2003 drama Marion Bridge is about three sisters who are tending to their dying mother in a small town in Nova Scotia. The movie shows a great amount of realism throughout. It's an emotional upheaval as old family secrets and previous wounds are opened. The drama mostly centers around the younger sister Agnes, who's recovering from drug and alcohol addiction. The situations that ensue will turn what's supposed to be an event which unites the sisters into a war.

Marion Bridge is titled after a folk song which has a positive meaning for the family. But the movie is anything but positive, as the truth regarding various family issues comes out, similar to opening a proverbial Pandora's Box.