Borealis
Sep 05 2015
•2h 35m
•Drama, Comedy
Jonah, an unemployed gambler, takes his estranged pot-smoking teen-aged daughter Aurora on a dangerous road trip to Churchill, Manitoba to show her the magnificent Northern Lights – before her vision disorder renders her completely blind.
Cast
See allJonas Chernick
Jonah
Joey King
Aurora
Kevin Pollak
Tubby
Emily Hampshire
Kyla
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