The Hanging Garden

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The Hanging Garden
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R,1hr 31min
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May 15, 1998
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Goldwyn Films
Synopsis: Ten years after he disappeared from his family's life, Sweet William (Chris Leavins) returns home to Nova Scotia for his sister's wedding. Despite the fact that he's gone from a morbidly obese adolescent to a thin, handsome, self-assured young man, the reunion proves bittersweet. Although he reconnects with his loving sister Rosemary (Kerry Fox) and his Alzheimer's-afflicted grandmother Grace (Joan Orenstein), he is dismayed to learn that his parents' rocky marriage has settled into permanent animosity. ... Full Synopsis
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This spare, exquisitely nuanced exorcism of childhood ghosts recasts the traditional dysfunctional-family melodrama as a magical-realist fable where both memory and nightmare take physical form and it's up to the viewer to decide what's really happening. The title refers in part to the backyard garden where Whiskey Mack (Peter MacNeill) drills young Sweet William (Ian Parsons) on the names of flowers ... Full Review
Featured Cast
Sweet William
Rosemary
Whiskey Mac
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