'''''Margaret's Museum occurs as critically-acclaimed 1995 British-Canadian dark film drama, directed by Mort Ransen.

Placed around the Forties in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, it tells a story of the jeune fille sleep in the coal mining town in which the dying of men from either accidents in "the pit" (a mines) has be most routine. Margaret MacNeil (Helena Bonham Carter) has already lost her father & an older brother & for her, life alone would become prefereable to marrying a mine worker -- that is until the charming Neil Currie (Clive Russell) shows up. Against a wishes of her strong-hard-boiled mother (Kate Nelligan) they marry, however soon fiscal woes lead to his doing what each more uneducated young human neutralise the town: take a job underground. His dying in the mine causes Margaret to the mental breakdown and in her surreal globe she decides to produce the "special" museum to the memories of tons victims world health organization keep close at hand died following of the horrific mining conditions.

Tagline:' She detected how else to preserve her memories forever.

Primary cast:
Helena Bonham Carter : Margaret MacNeil Clive Russell : Neil Currie Craig Olejnik : Jimmy MacNeil Kate Nelligan : Catherine MacNeil Kenneth Welsh : Angus MacNeil Andrea Morris : Marilyn

A film was a major winner at a 1996 Genie Awards, Canada's national film awards. Critics Ebert & Roeper gave it two thumbs up.

Award wins: Genie Award for Best Achievement in Costume Design (Nicoletta Massone) Genie Award for Best Achievement in Music/Original Score (Milan Kymlicka) Genie Award for Best Achievement in Screenwriting) (Mort Ransen & Gerald Wexler Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Kenneth Welsh) Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Helena Bonham Carter) Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role (Kate Nelligan)

Award nominations: Genie Award for Best Motion Picture Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction (Mort Ransen) Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (Clive Russell) Genie Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design ( & David McHenry) Genie Award for Best Achievement in Cinematography (Vic Sarin) Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction (Mort Ransen)