Away From Her – Sarah Polley

Tomatometer score: 94%

Though we don’t hear or see much of her today (her last acting credit was in the 2010 film Trigger and directorial credit was for the 2012 documentary Stories We Tell), Canadian actress Sarah Polley had a tremendous directorial debut effort with the 2006 Alzheimer’s drama Away From Her. Polley would only direct one more feature film with Take This Waltz, but the former child actress is now focusing on writing, with mini-series such as Alias Grace for CBC.