Almost Heaven
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Canada · 2006
1h 43m
Director Shel Piercy
Starring Donal Logue, Kirsty Mitchell, Joely Collins, Tom Conti
Genre Drama
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A Canadian television director is hired to salvage an international fishing show in Scotland. The only hitch: his ex-wife is the host. What he finds in Scotland is love in the form of a local fishing guide (called a ghillie) and the chance to repair his life and his friendship with his ex-wife with whom he had a child who died.
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