• Rating:
• Genre: War
• Movie Type: Romantic Drama, Marriage Drama
• Themes: Women During Wartime, Life on the Homefront
• Director: Anne Wheeler
• 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

Cast

• Rebecca Jenkins - Daisy Cooper
• Michael Ontkean - Teddy Cooper
• Luke Reilly - Max Gramley
• Stuart Margolin - Slim Godfrey
• Robyn Stevan - Frances Cooper

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

Bill Henderson - Composer (Music Score); John S. Blackie - Production Designer; George Blondheim - Composer (Music Score); Scott Dobbie - Art Director; Maureen Hiscox - Costume Designer; Arvi Liimatainen - Co-producer; Christopher Tate - Editor; Anne Wheeler - Co-producer; Anne Wheeler - Director; Anne Wheeler - Screenwriter; Tony Allard - Executive Producer; Alison Grace - Sound Editor; Peter Thillaye - Sound Editor; Alison Fisher - Sound Editor; Paul Massey - Sound/Sound Designer; Victor Sarin - Cinematographer; Garrell Clark - Sound/Sound Designer; Bruno DeGazio - Sound Editor; Penny Hozy - Sound Editor; Peter Kelly - Sound/Sound Designer

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