New Waterford Girl

Teenage Mooney Pottie (Liane Balaban) is desperate to leave the small Nova Scotian town she's lived in all her life. When she befriends her brassy new neighbour Lou (Tara Spencer-Nairn), Mooney is inspired to assert herself, and she finally finds her escape route when her teacher (Andrew McCarthy) helps her get admitted to art school in New York. Her family is vehemently opposed to her leaving, however, so Mooney hatches an improbable scheme to get out of town -- but will she have the courage to follow through?