Stories We Tell
2012 · 109 MIN · IMDB 7.5 · 14,335 VOTES · DIR. Sarah Polley
Overview
Canadian actress and filmmaker Sarah Polley investigates certain secrets related to her mother, interviewing a group of family members and friends whose reliability varies depending of their implication in the events, which are remembered in different ways; so a trail of questions remains to be answered, because memory is always changing and the discovery of truth often depends on who is telling the tale.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,905 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:31 (PIANO PLAYING FOLK TUNE)
00:05:16 "somewhere in my ancestor's DNA, just waiting to just be born.
00:09:05 (SIGHS) Oh, something was going wrong
00:13:11 One of her great strengths
00:17:34 "that he had never lived up to her earlier visions of Mick and Franz
00:21:44 I said, "Well, if that's the way you feel about it...
00:25:47 Yeah? Did you know?
00:29:51 because there'd always been Diane there as well.
00:34:09 who she thought might be my father? (BOTH LAUGHING)
00:38:25 "before Sarah's birth.
00:42:31 It wasn't gonna happen.
00:46:42 over losing the kids.
00:51:06 then we'd have to say goodbye and go into the house
00:56:08 She was loyal on all these levels.
01:00:20 When I first met Harry, he was a film producer
01:04:39 (LAUGHING) that I have, that I haven't seen on very many people, either.
01:08:51 I chased the bear.
01:12:36 "My God, what she's saying is
01:16:40 "So, it was clearly my own future that I was worried about.
01:20:33 because of the private way in which we were dealing with it.
01:24:52 People tend to declare themselves
01:28:34 I mean, Diane's not here to talk to, you know?
01:34:26 Would never forget her.
01:40:00 "or what has been reported to me has been told.
Cast & Characters
Michael Polley
Self - Storyteller
John Buchan
Self - Storyteller
Mark Polley
Self - Storyteller
Joanna Polley
Self - Storyteller
Harry Gulkin
Self - Storyteller
Susy Buchan
Self - Storyteller
Cathy Gulkin
Self - Storyteller
Marie Murphy
Self - Storyteller
Robert MacMillan
Self - Storyteller
Anne Tait
Self - Storyteller
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,905
Dialogue density17.5 lines / min
First line00:00:31
Final line01:40:00
Production Record
DirectorSarah Polley
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes14,335