Alberta Watson’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

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Alberta Watson has 7 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2000s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
Recurring themes

Red Road
2006
Drama · Thriller

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
2003
Drama · Action

Lorna's Silence
2008
Crime · Drama

Lust, Caution
2007
Action · Drama

The Consequences of Love
2004
Drama · Thriller

The Mudge Boy
2003
Drama · Romance

The Child
2005
Drama

The Machinist
2004
Thriller · Drama

Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an 'internationally ignored' but divinely talented rock diva, inhabiting a 'beautiful gender of one'.
Dir. John Cameron Mitchell · With John Cameron Mitchell, Miriam Shor, Stephen Trask

Fiona and Grant have been married for nearly 50 years. They have to face the fact that Fiona’s absent-mindedness is a symptom of Alzheimer’s disease. She must go to a specialized nursing home, where she slowly forgets Grant and turns her affection to Aubrey, another patient in the home.
Dir. Sarah Polley · With Gordon Pinsent, Julie Christie, Michael Murphy

A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives to help the survivors' and victims' families prepare a class-action suit, but his efforts only seem to push the townspeople further apart. At the same time, one teenage survivor of the accident has to reckon with the loss of innocence brought about by a different kind of damage.
Dir. Atom Egoyan · With Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Tom McCamus

Chris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist.
Dir. Scott Frank · With Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode

A fairy tale love-story about pre-med student Paige who falls in love with a Danish Prince "Eddie" who refused to follow the traditions of his parents and has come to the US to quench his thirst for rebellion. Paige and Edward come from two different worlds, but there is an undeniable attraction between them.
Dir. Martha Coolidge · With Julia Stiles, Luke Mably, Ben Miller
Set during World War II, a German army garrison is sent to guard a mountain pass in a village in Romania's Carpathian mountains and sets up barracks in an ancient stone fortress. Two of the soldiers unwittingly release a mysterious entity that kills or corrupts those within its influence, drawing the attention of a Gestapo commander, a Jewish scholar, and a mysterious traveller.
Dir. Michael Mann · With Scott Glenn, Alberta Watson, Jürgen Prochnow
After surviving an attempt on his life by his former partner, officer Cliff Garrett (Norris) exacts revenge on those who wronged him by going undercover as a hit man. He works to gain the reputation and trust needed in order to be accepted by the burgeoning Seattle-area criminal underworld, but it is all done in order to take it down from within.
Dir. Aaron Norris · With Chuck Norris, Alberta Watson, Michael Parks