After their mother commits suicide, two sisters end up living with their kind but peculiar aunt in their grandmother's old house in a small 1950s town.
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| Christine Lahti | ... | Sylvie | |
| Sara Walker | ... | Ruth | |
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Andrea Burchill | ... | Lucille |
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Anne Pitoniak | ... | Aunt Lily |
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Barbara Reese | ... | Aunt Nona |
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Margot Pinvidic | ... | Helen |
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Bill Smillie | ... | Sheriff |
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Betty Phillips | ... | Mrs. Jardine |
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Karen Elizabeth Austin | ... | Mrs. Paterson |
| Dolores Drake | ... | Mrs. Walker (as Delores Drake) | |
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Georgie Collins | ... | Grandmother |
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Tonya Tanner | ... | Young Ruth |
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In the Pacific Northwest in 1955, two young sisters, abandoned by their mother, wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to most people's expectations. Written by Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>; edited by Peter Victor
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5 February 1988 (Sweden) See more »Also Known As:
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$32,171, 29 November 1987Gross USA:
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Sylvie: He always does that. If he thinks someone's watching him, he just carries on even more.
Fisherman: Come back here!
Sylvie: Pitiful. He's gonna have a heart attack someday.
Ruth: It must be his boat.
Sylvie: Either that or he's some kind of lunatic. I'm certainly not going back to find out.
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Music by Paul Burkhardt
Lyrics by John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons
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The film takes place in 1955. See more »Quotes
Fisherman: You come back here! Lady, you come back here! Lady, you come back!Sylvie: He always does that. If he thinks someone's watching him, he just carries on even more.
Fisherman: Come back here!
Sylvie: Pitiful. He's gonna have a heart attack someday.
Ruth: It must be his boat.
Sylvie: Either that or he's some kind of lunatic. I'm certainly not going back to find out.
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Years since I saw it in the moviehouse or video. NOT a comedy in the yuk yuk sense. I only wish I could have been on the set to say, "Bill, Focus more on the girls, not the aunt! You did them both so well!" It was just a question of balance in this absorbing movie. Christine Lahti had such a good, strong performance and Forsyth let her take the movie, or at least gave many viewers the idea that her character's the focus. Stunning scenery, wonderful evocation of family and place, and fascinates with its exploration of watery metaphors for our connection to and removal from people. Very faithful in tone to the book (a must-read by marilyn robinson, BTW), which I read after seeing the movie more than once. I wish I could see it on the big screen again.