The Stone Angel struck the right note with audiences over the Mother’s Day weekend, opening to a strong per-screen average of $6,600 over its first three days in theaters through Alliance Films.

The drama, directed by Kari Skogland from the acclaimed novel by Margaret Laurence, netted $59,000 over the weekend, following its release on May 9 in cities including Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto and Montreal. Its total after one week was just shy of $100,000.

The ‘encouraging opening bodes well for the rest of the run,’ an Alliance spokesperson tells Playback Daily.

The distributor added one screen in Vancouver on Friday, and will expand the film to Ottawa, Halifax, Edmonton and Calgary next week. Stone Angel will move to St. John’s, NL and Moncton, NB on June 6.

The film stars Ellen Burstyn as a 90-year-old woman who looks back at her life from a nursing home. Stone Angel has garnered generally positive reviews, with Variety calling it a ‘tastefully reverent, fundamentally sincere treatment’ of Laurence’s novel, though Sun Media’s Kevin Williamson noted it would have worked better as a television event.

It will open in the U.S. in July through Vivendi.