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Karyn Dwyer
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Maggie (Karyn Dwyer) is 19 and wants to be a writer. A bookstore clerk by day, and girls' club dancer by night, she's in an exploration-of- life mode. But Maggie hasn't quite cleared the runway with her family. They don't know that she's dropped out of university or that she's a lesbian.
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Wendy (Karyn Dwyer) manages to find an apartment from a lady who teaches sex seminars. She is going on a trip for four weeks, and Wendy agrees to sublet the apartment. She figures that in that amount of time, she can get rid of her mom (Lesly Ann Warren) and her brother. Of course, the apartment is full of dildos and other implements of pleasure. Kim (Christina Cox) is an artist who does portraits and enjoys putting paint on bodies and then rolling around a canvas. Better Than Chocolate is mainly about Wendy and Kim and Lili.
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Scant hours before her uptight mother (Wendy Crewson) and brother move in with her, Maggie (Karyn Dwyer) meets the woman of her dreams (Christina Cox). Though Mom is oblivious to her daughter's sexual orientation, it's a tough thing to hide in close quarters. Meanwhile, Maggie's transgender friend (Peter Outerbridge) falls in love with the owner of the lesbian bookstore where Maggie works. Anne Wheeler directed this sexy romp about love and lust.
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The plot concerns Maggie (Karyn Dwyer), a lesbian artist who has so far managed to conceal her sexuality from her family. However, complications ensue when Maggie's mother (Wendy Crewson) and teenage brother Paul (Kevin Mundy) decided to move into the loft she's subletting.
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Karyn Elizabeth Dwyer was born in Corner Brook, Newfoundland to two school teachers Donald and Elizabeth Dwyer, who were of Scottish and Irish Catholic descent. She is the oldest of five children. Her father died of cancer in 1982 at the age of 38. After his death, her family moved to her mother's hometown of Wabana on Bell Island, Newfoundland and later St. John's.
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Karyn Dwyer starred in Better Than Chocolate, one of Canada's top films at the international box office. Better Than Chocolate ranked 31 on The Hollywood Reporter's list of best independent films that year, won numerous awards at international film festivals, and earned Karyn a loyal cult following.
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