A Winter Tan
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A Winter Tan is a Canadian drama film, released in 1987. Based on the book Give Sorrow Words by Maryse Holder, the film stars Jackie Burroughs as Holder.
The screenplay was written by Burroughs and John Frizzell, and the film was directed and produced jointly by Burroughs, Frizzell, Louise Clark, John Walker and Aerlyn Weissman.
Summary
In this portentous docudrama, Jackie Burroughs stars as Maryse Holder, the ill-fated feminist author who met an untimely death in Acapulco. Her attitude of cultural and racial condescension toward Mexican men was to regard them as nothing more than beasts of burden for her own sexual pleasure, and her hedonistic pursuits of sex and drugs lead to her death at the hands of one of her many machismo boytoys.
Cast
- Jackie Burroughs as Maryse Holder
- Erando Gonzalez as Miguel Novaro
- Anita Olanick as Pam
- Diane D'Aquila as Edith
Awards
Burroughs won the Genie Award for Best Actress.
