A family of Canadian pig farmers find their lives addled with dysfunction and underlying problems beneath their cheerful facade.A family of Canadian pig farmers find their lives addled with dysfunction and underlying problems beneath their cheerful facade.A family of Canadian pig farmers find their lives addled with dysfunction and underlying problems beneath their cheerful facade.
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Michèle-Barbara Pelletier
- Anne-Marie Andrews
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- GoofsThe dog was eating off the plate, leaving the hot-dog. but when the plate was handed to mom, the hot-dog was missing. The dog must have eaten the dog in another take.
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Written by Frankie Lymon (as Frank Lymon) and George Goldner
Published by Longitude Music Co. & Full Keel Music Co.
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Chilling with Mr Harcourt
Hello Peter Harcourt. You granted me an interview at Carleton University about my having finished an MA in Philosophy and wanting to study for an MA in Film Studies. But we both agreed even if you only want to watch movies you still keep writing anyway. "The Lotus Eaters" uses very long shots to make it seem like an old '60s movie with the comedic use by all characters staring slightly off camera. The "idyllic setting" of the BC island is rendered by each frame being a composed colour photograph, picture postcard perfect. As for "made for TV" director Paul Shapiro and writer Peggy Thompson spent the rest of their careers doing well with work for TV. As a person nothing but Canadian, I picked up on the school principal in "The Lotus Eaters" REFUSING TO ALLOW HIS FAMILY TO HAVE A TV. I'm so glad movies I identify with stopped me from going to England to study philosophy with a friend of FRLeavis. But I do identify too with the movies in your book "Six European Directors"!!
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- nitznitch
- Oct 4, 2009
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