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Director:
Writer:
Thom Fitzgerald (writer)
Release Date:
7 November 1997 (USA)
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Tagline:
It's hard to go home... ten years after your death.
Plot:
William, a once obese and troubled teen, goes back to his family's home after being gone, without word...
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20 wins
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10 nominations
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A surreal fabric of past and present
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Ian Parsons | ... | Little Sweet William | |
| Peter MacNeill | ... | Whiskey Mac | |
| Troy Veinotte | ... | Teen Sweet William | |
| Kerry Fox | ... | Rosemary | |
| Mark Austin | ... | Preacher | |
| Joel S. Keller | ... | Fletcher | |
| Heather Rankin | ... | Black-Eyed Susan | |
| Christine Dunsworth | ... | Violet | |
| Seana McKenna | ... | Iris | |
| Joan Orenstein | ... | Grace | |
| Chris Leavins | ... | Sweet William | |
| Ashley MacIsaac | ... | Basil--Fiddler | |
| Jocelyn Cunningham | ... | Laurel | |
| Jim Faraday | ... | Mr. MacDougal | |
| Sarah Polley | ... | Teen Rosemary |
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Also Known As:
Le jardin suspendu (Canada: French title)
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Rated R for strong sexuality, language, and a scene of a hanging, and some teen drug use.
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91 min
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1.66 : 1 more
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Grace:
[sending her grandchildren off to a school dance. To granddaughter Rosemary.] You got pockets? You carrying your protection with you?
Teen Rosemary: What?!
Grace: Started when your father was young. Every party dress had to have pockets.
[fetches something from her chest-of-drawers.]
Grace: Now ... Your hands. These'll keep you safe.
[lowers a rosary into Rosemary's open hands.]
Grace: Now, you feel some of that ... that hocus-pocus comin' into your body ... you don't have to worry.
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Teen Rosemary: What?!
Grace: Started when your father was young. Every party dress had to have pockets.
[fetches something from her chest-of-drawers.]
Grace: Now ... Your hands. These'll keep you safe.
[lowers a rosary into Rosemary's open hands.]
Grace: Now, you feel some of that ... that hocus-pocus comin' into your body ... you don't have to worry.
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Featured in Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche (2004) (TV)
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The Hanging garden is one of those fine metaphors about familial existence, self explanation, and coping with a certain kind of sexuality in a community which will have none of it. It's central character, a man who returns home after years away, seems out of place in such a crude and rugged environment as the East Coast. He must, in a certain kind of mindset, face what he was, and try to bury that past for good. His struggle, one of growing to realize what has happened and how he has changed, leads him on a bizarre odyssey of acceptance and growth. The rest of his family may seem somewhat rude and unkempt, but keep in mind that people are pretty much this way in the Martimes at any right. A fine film, especially by Canadian standards.