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 |
| Wayne Robson | ... | Principal | |
| Betty Phillips | ... | Mrs. Jardine | |
| 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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Leah Penny | ... | Young Lucille |
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Brian Linds | ... | Deputy Sheriff |
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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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Opening Weekend USA:
$32,171, 29 November 1987Gross USA:
$1,083,282Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
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Music by Paul Burkhardt
Lyrics by John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons
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This was greenlit by the then newly appointed Columbia chief, David Puttnam. See more »Quotes
Ruth: Silvie had no awareness of time. For her, hours and minutes were the names of trains.See more »
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"For Marilynne and Fred and their two wonderful boys" See more »Connections
Featured in At the Movies: Good Morning, Vietnam/Leonard Part 6/Eddie Murphy Raw/Housekeeping/Siesta (1987) See more »Soundtracks
Oh My Papa(uncredited)
Music by Paul Burkhardt
Lyrics by John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons
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great film, but probably the most misrepresentative ad campaign i've ever seen for a movie. this is NOT a comedy. Christine Lahti's Sylvia is NOT a one dimensional free-spirit. she is disturbed, as is the entire family. this translates perfectly from the book, as does the film's look and emotional atmosphere.
as for the opinion that Sylvia is a Pied Piper, that's just wrong. she could care less if anyone follows in her path. it just so happens that her niece is seduced by virtue of what i would interpret as instinct. the family has a long history of breaking from the norm, much to its detriment. the niece is merely fulfilling her filial destiny.
to say that the story presents a polemic about nonconformity shortchanges the viewer from the complexity of emotions that it evokes. there is no argument. this is just the way things turn out for these folks. and in my opinion, the ending leaves us questioning, just as it does in the book, how much control we have over destiny.