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Random Passage

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 27, 2002

Runtime

6h 0m

Genres

Drama, History

Original Title

Random Passage

Production Companies

Blue Heaven Productions, Cité-Amérique, Full Works, Passage Films, Subotica

Director

John N. Smith

Budget

$15,000,000

Description

This award winning miniseries traces the difficult passage of young Mary Keane (Aoife McMahon) from servitude in Ireland to the squalor of rough-and-tumble Newfoundland in the early 1800s. Escaping attempted rape and abuse, Mary moves on with her infant daughter to find shelter at a remote fishing station run by Thomas Hutchings (Colm Meaney). In a time and place where life and death are a hair's breadth apart, Mary joins the community's struggle for survival against sickness and starvation. All of the Cape's people are fugitives of one kind or another, but by pulling together through hardships and tragedies, they forge a new life of hope - and even love.