The Lotus Eaters (1993)

Set off the West Coast of Canada in 1965, a hip new teacher with a miniskirt and lots of ideas turns a small town upside down. The soft autumn light of Galiano Island is beautifully rendered in writer/producer Peggy Thompson's The Lotus Eaters, and that's not the only elusive element that this film has captured. In revisiting its particular time and place - the Gulf Islands of the early '60s -Thompson obviously draws on her own family experiences there. For those who share Thompson's love of Gulf Islands magic, the elements she has assembled will feel as familiar as their own childhood blanket. But there are problems at the core of this story about a family's loss of innocence.

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Tara Frederick
as Cleo Kingswood

Aloka McLean
as Zoe Kingswood

R.H. Thomson
as Hal Kingswood

Sheila McCarthy
as Diana Kingswood

Andrea Libman
as Jo Spittle

Tony Dakota
as Geoffrey

Michèle-Barbara Pelletier
as Anne-Marie Andrews

Paul Soles
as Tobias Spittle

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Paul Shapiro
Director

Peggy Thompson
Screenplay

Susan Shipton
Editor

Thomas Burstyn
Director of Photography

Alison Grace
Sound Editor

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