Where to Watch Hugh MacLennan: Portrait of a Writer

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Hugh MacLennan: Portrait of a Writer starring Hugh MacLennan, Robert A. Duncan, Alan Maitland has a Not Rated rating, a runtime of about 58 min, and a scheduled release date of .

Wondering what this story is all about? Here's the plot: "A portrait of and tribute to the author who, with the publication of Barometer Rising in 1941, set a precedent in Canadian literature by writing about Canadian topics and places and, in so doing, paved the way for a thriving national literary movement. Through the use of still photographs, archival footage and interviews, this documentary traces seven decades of MacLennan's public and private life--as a young boy in Nova Scotia, brought up in a strict Presbyterian family of Scottish descent, as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, as a professor at McGill University, and as the author of seven novels and numerous essays. Also featured in the film are several readings from MacLennan's work." .