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Don McBrearty is a Canadian film director.

Career

In 2003 McBrearty directed the made for television drama film Sex and the Single Mom.^[1]^[2] It tells the story of Jess Gradwell (Gail O'Grady), a single and overly concerned mother of a 15-year-old girl, Sara (Danielle Panabaker). She becomes even more over protective when Sara tells her about thinking of having sex with her new boyfriend. The things between Sara and Jess start to change when Jess begins an affair with a newly single doctor.

He directed the sequel to Sex and the Single Mom, entitled More Sex and the Single Mom, released in 2005 with O'Grady reprising her role as Jess. The film focuses on Jess's life as a mother of a teenage daughter and a three-year-old son, as well as her increasingly complicated love and sex life. In an interview with The Tuscaloosa News, O'Grady admitted that she had been "pleasantly surprised" when she was informed that there would be a sequel, and stated that the ending of the second film left the door open for future sequels.^[3]

Filmography

Film and television

Year	Film	Credited as	Notes
1983	American Nightmare	Director
1983	Boys and Girls	Director	Won 1983 Academy Award for Live Action Short Film
1984	Coming Out Alive	Director
1986	Strange Tales/Ray Bradbury Theatre	Director
1987	A Child's Christmas in Wales	Director
1992	Road to Avonlea	Director	episodes "The Quarantine at Alexander Abraham's", "The Materializing of Duncan MacTavish", "The Witch of Avonlea", "A Mother's Love", "When She Was Bad, She Was Horrid, Pts. I and II", "After the Honeymoon", "Felicity's Perfect Beau", "Tug of War", "Boys Will Be Boys", "Heirs and Graces", "Home Movie", "Memento Mori"
1994	Butterbox Babies	Director
1994	Race to Freedom: The Story of the Underground Railroad	Director
1997	Newton: A Tale of Two Isaacs	Director
1999	Wind at My Back	Director	episodes "The Summer Plague", "Marriage of True Minds", "The Wild Blue Yonder", "Remembrance Day", "Marathon"
2001	Blue Murder	Director	episodes "Spankdaddy", "Family Man"
2002	The Interrogation of Michael Crowe	Director
2003	Sex and the Single Mom	Director
2005	More Sex and the Single Mom	Director
2006	October 1970	Director
2007	Luna: Spirit of the Whale	Director
2007	Heartland	Director	episodes "Coming Together", "Nothing Endures", "Come What May", "One Trick Pony"
2008	Murdoch Mysteries	Director	episodes "Still Waters", "Let Loose the Dogs", "Til Death Do Us Part", "Elementary, My Dear Murdoch"
2008	Accidental Friendship	Director	Hallmark Channel TV movie
2009	Wild Roses	Director	episodes "Love and Loss", "Oil and Water"
2016	Valentine Ever After	Director	Hallmark Channel TV movie

References

^ "CRITIC'S PICKS". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. September 8, 2003. Retrieved 16 May 2013.
^ Hal Erickson (2007). "Sex and the Single Mom (2003)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 19 November 2007. Retrieved 16 May 2013.
^ "O'Grady plays 'Single Mom' again". The Tuscaloosa News. Feb 6, 2005. Retrieved 16 May 2013.