It's Just Better
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a family with 13 kids and no father in Canada. Live lamb birth., In a farmhouse on the shore of Bras d'Or Lake, Cape Breton Island, Shawn Peter Dwyer, age 10, lives with his mother and nine brothers and sisters. Because money is scarce, the Dwyers make the things they cannot buy and rely on working together. Trees are felled to heat the house and water lugged in an assembly-line of buckets. Shawn is philosophical about life without a father and cramped quarters: there's lots of love in a big family; you've always got people to play with.
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- Directed by
- Beverly Shaffer
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Mugs, mitts and toothbrushes hang from their respective nails, awaiting ten pairs of hands. At the farmhouse on Cape Breton Island where Shawn Peter Dwyer, age ten, lives with his mother and nine brothers and sisters, a team effort keeps the family functioning. The children work and play together. Their pockets are usually empty, but their lives are well filled. A useful film for the study of values and lifestyles.
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