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I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
I've Heard the Mermaids Singing is a 1987 feature film, directed by Patricia Rozema. The title is taken from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot.
Plot.
The film stars Sheila McCarthy as Polly, a worker for a temporary secretarial agency. Polly serves as the narrator for the film, and there are frequent sequences portraying her whimsical fantasies. Polly lives alone, seems to have no friends and enjoys solitary bicycle rides to undertake her hobby
he lost to the film's other Best Actor nominee, Roger Lebel. The female acting awards were won by Sheila McCarthy and Paule Baillargeon for the film "I've Heard the Mermaids Singing"; only the Documentary and Short Film awards, in which neither "Night Zoo" nor "I've Heard the Mermaids Singing" were even eligible for consideration, were won by any other film.