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Oct 8, 2009 · Hanging Garden, The. Director Thom Fitzgerald's feature debut, The Hanging Garden (1997), is both revelatory and mysterious. The film concerns an attempted reconciliation between a young man's repressed past and his bolder, openly gay, adult personality, and Fitzgerald's penchant for surreal family situations is on full display.
Hanging Garden is a small, intensely felt film about a family in tatters and a son whose own problems are eclipsed until he does something he can't take back. Given the film's major conceit is a breach in family fabric that can't be woven back in, magic realism is an applicable term--but only so if shot through the caustic self-wounding humour ...
TOP CRITIC. The heart of the movie is its insight into the way families are haunted by their own history. Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000. Maria Garcia Film Journal International ...
In the middle of the ceremony, William's fanatically religious grandmother, Grace (Joan Orenstein), who suffers from Alzheimer's, shouts crazily out of the window of her attic sick room. By the end of the afternoon, his father, Whiskey Mac (Peter McNeill), a gardener, has passed out. Hours later, William's long-suffering mother, Iris (Seana ...
Shown at Seattle International Film Festival (New Directors Showcase) May 21 - June 14, 1998. Shown at Vancouver International Film Festival (Canadian Images Series) September 26 - October 12, 1997. Feature directorial debut for Thom Fitzgerald. MGM Distribution Co reportedly pays $500,000 for the US theatrical rights to this film.
Sep 10, 2012 · A question mark hangs over which William is the 'true' one, and which the ghost, or the fantasy. Leavins and Fox head a strong cast in this unusual witty twist on the old dysfunctional family plot ...
Jun 1, 2003 · In dem Film geht es eher darum, wie er aufgewachsen ist, welche psychischen Qualen er zuhause erleiden musste und wie er jetzt damit umgeht. Das ist nur eine Geschichte in dem Film "Hanging Garden": Jeder Charakter hat seine Vergangenheit, seine Träume und Ängste.
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