Themes: Women During Wartime, Life on the Homefront
Main Cast: Rebecca Jenkins, Michael Ontkean, Luke Reilly, Stuart Margolin, Robyn Stevan
Release Year: 1989
Country: US/CA
Run Time: 110 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
In this well-wrought drama, WW II dramatically changes the lives of the Cooper family when its patriarch is called to battle, captured, and sent to a Japanese POW camp. Back at home the heretofore coddled wife, who doesn't know if her husband is still alive, must somehow figure out how to support her family and carry on in the British tradition of courage and dignity under pressure. Her solution is to join a swing band. As she becomes increasingly confident and independent, she begins wondering whether or not she still loves her missing spouse. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Kate Reid - Mary Wright; Wayne Robson - Peter; Sheila Moore - Doreen Cooper; Susan Wooldridge - Lady Wilson; Leon Pownall - Bernie Bitzer; Kirk Duffee - Richard Cooper, Age 9; Aline Levasseur - Emma Cooper; Vincent Gale - Will Wright; Leslie Yeo - Arthur Wright; Ross Campbell - Saxophone Player; Ron Carothers - Porter; Kaye Grieve - Drunk Woman; Judy Henderson; Bette Chadwick; Gail Carr; John Ferguson - Duncan
Credit
Scott Dobbie - Art Director, Arvi Liimatainen - Co-producer, Anne Wheeler - Co-producer, Maureen Hiscox - Costume Designer, Anne Wheeler - Director, Christopher Tate - Editor, Tony Allard - Executive Producer, Bill Henderson - Composer (Music Score), George Blondheim - Composer (Music Score), John S. Blackie - Production Designer, Victor Sarin - Cinematographer, Paul Massey - Sound/Sound Designer, Garrell Clark - Sound/Sound Designer, Peter Kelly - Sound/Sound Designer, Alison Grace - Sound Editor, Peter Thillaye - Sound Editor, Alison Fisher - Sound Editor, Bruno DeGazio - Sound Editor, Penny Hozy - Sound Editor, Anne Wheeler - Screenwriter
The film was nominated for twelve Genie Awards at the 11th Genie Awards in 1990, and won three: Best Actress (Jenkins), Best Supporting Actress (Stevan), and Best Original Song ("When I Sing" by Bill Henderson).
External links
Canadian Film Encyclopedia [A publication of The Film Reference Library/a division of the Toronto International Film Festival Group]
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