The Lotus Eaters

The story

Set off the West Coast of Canada in 1965, a hip new teacher with a miniskirt and lots of ideas turns a small town upside down. The soft autumn light of Galiano Island is beautifully rendered in writer/producer Peggy Thompson's The Lotus Eaters, and that's not the only elusive element that this film has captured. In revisiting its particular time and place - the Gulf Islands of the early '60s -Thompson obviously draws on her own family experiences there. For those who share Thompson's love of Gulf Islands magic, the elements she has assembled will feel as familiar as their own childhood blanket. But there are problems at the core of this story about a family's loss of innocence.

Cast

T Tara FrederickCleo Kingswood A Aloka McLeanZoe Kingswood R R.H. ThomsonHal Kingswood S Sheila McCarthyDiana Kingswood A Andrea LibmanJo Spittle T Tony DakotaGeoffrey J Jacques HubertMr. Ralston F Frances HylandFlora Kingswood S Suzie PayneMiss Oliffe S Simon WebbRev Winter P Patti AllanMiss Storey P Paul SolesTobias Spittle

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G Gabe KhouthDwayne Spittle M Michèle-Barbara PelletierAnne-Marie Andrews C Cameron StewartFiddler C Cliff MillerMusician D Dan PersykoMusician M Michael TaylesMr. Hoffman C Conrad the DogAce D DiggerMortimer S SpotOgilvy