Shades of Love: Lilac Dream (1987) (V)

Directors:

Jim Kaufman
Marc F. Voizard

Writer:

Serita Deborah Stevens

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Plot:

The story of a young woman alone on an island and a young man washed ashore from a shipwreck. She nurses him back to health, falling in love with him along the way. |

Plot Keywords:

Castaway | Independent Film

Cast

Dack Rambo	...	Matt
Susan Almgren	...	Tamara
Walter Massey	...	Ezra
Arthur Grosser	...	Doc Hamilton
Barry Edward Blake	...	Harbour Master
Philip Pretten	...	Tom

Directed by
Jim Kaufman
Marc F. Voizard

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Serita Deborah Stevens

Produced by
Kenneth Atchity	....	executive producer
Stewart Harding	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Lewis Furey

Cinematography by
René Verzier

Film Editing by
François Gill

Production Design by
Michael Joy

Art Direction by
Lynn Trout

Set Decoration by
Guy Lalande

Costume Design by
Lise Bedard

Makeup Department
Serge Morache	....	hair stylist
Colleen Quinton	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Karl Archambault	....	assistant unit manager
Ken Korrall	....	unit manager
Pierre Laberge	....	production manager
Marilyn Majerczyk	....	production supervisor

Art Department
Richard Tassé	....	assistant set dresser

Sound Department
Henri Blondeau	....	sound

Stunts
David McKeown	....	stunt coordinator
Jennifer McKeown	....	stunts

Camera and Electrical Department
Sylvain Bernier	....	best boy electric

Casting Department
Lee Daniels	....	casting: Los Angelas
Vera Miller	....	casting: Montreal
Nadia Rona	....	casting: Montreal

Music Department
Richard Grégoire	....	conductor

Transportation Department
Tim Parkinson	....	driver

Other crew
Sandrine Fayos	....	continuity
Michel Guay	....	location manager

Production Companies

• Astral Film Enterprises
• First Choice Canadian Communication Corporation

Distributors

• Lorimar Home Video
• Starlight

Also Known As:

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:PG

Company:

Astral Film Enterprises

Soundtrack:

Baby, Come to Me

Uneven, but not horrible

The story is pure romance novel stuff, of course: woman recently jilted runs away to be alone in a remote place (in this case, on a small island) to lick her wounds. There is a terrible storm, howling wind, rain, etc., and the following morning she finds a wounded man washed up on the shore in front of her rented house. With help, she gets him into her house and nurses him back to health, and when he awakens, he doesn't remember anything about himself. The only clue to his identity is the message engraved on his watch: "To Matt, with love". Love blossoms, of course.

The writing is uneven and the story leaps over some potentially dramatic scenes in favour of the romantic ones, which left me a little unsatisfied. Their relationship seemed to race along without any real foundation except physical attraction - there was never a common interest or taste identified, so the relationship didn't seem as solidly believable as some in the SoL series. Some of the dialogue is awfully stilted and corny. The acting is uneven in places and is certainly not among Dack Rambo's best work, but I think much of that is due to the unevenness of the script. He is handsome, and Susan Almgren is pretty, with far too much blonde hair. The wardrobe lady needs to be smacked for putting Dack in a blue shirt with black somethings on, that looked like a pajama shirt.

The sex scene is short and mostly glossed-over, disappointingly.