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Hanging Garden (The)
- Director: Thom Fitzgerald
- Writer: Thom Fitzgerald
- Producer: Gilles Bélanger; Thom Fitzgerald
CGiii Comment
A homecoming story that gets a little lost up its own ass - perhaps, a little too ambitious.
There is nothing wrong with a straight forward narrative...but, this is a fairly simple story complicated by a director who has an over-active imagination and the inability to convey it onto the screen.
There are some notable performances and it is worthy of a look...but, the story becomes so convoluted that it begins to bore.
Still, it is an impressive debut - even if it did go in reverse.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
William, a once obese and troubled teen, goes back to his family's home after being gone, without word, for ten years and finds it (and his family) haunted with his past. He had moved to the city and become a fit, well-adjusted gay man, but during his visit home, he becomes unhinged as the newly remembered reasons for his miserable adolescence come to life in each of their presents.
Cast & Characters
Ian Parsons as Little Sweet William;
Peter MacNeill as Whiskey Mac;
Troy Veinotte as Teen Sweet William;
Kerry Fox as Rosemary;
Mark Austin as Preacher;
Joel S. Keller as Fletcher;
Heather Rankin as Black-Eyed Susan;
Christine Dunsworth as Violet;
Seana McKenna as Iris;
Joan Orenstein as Grace;
Chris Leavins as Sweet William;
Ashley MacIsaac as Basil--Fiddler;
Jocelyn Cunningham as Laurel;
Jim Faraday as Mr. MacDougal;
Sarah Polley as Teen Rosemary