After the Harvest
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Actor: Alberta Watson, George Leach, Jonathan Elliott, Marion Bennett, Sam ShepardBrand: ALLUMINATION FILM WORKS LLC
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 94 minutes
Published: 1996
DVD Release Date: 2003-05-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Allumination
Movie Reviews of After the Harvest
Movie Review: --Very entertaining--
Summary: 5 Stars
After The Harvest is a well done film with a lot of interesting characters. Sam Shepard gives an excellent performance portraying a complex and domineering man who completely controls his wife and four children.
The story begins when a young schoolteacher arrives in a rural area to live with a farm family. The mother and children of the family are distant and make very few overtures of friendship towards the teacher. The father lets her know that he will be watching her conduct and is responsible for her since she is living in his home.
Although the ages of the children are not stated. They appear to be in their late teens to early twenties. Their father works them all very hard and the girls labor along side their brothers. They tend the animals, mend fences, and plant and harvest the crops. Their mother is aloof and there is no love or affection shown by either parent towards their offspring. The teacher is the catalyst and becomes friends with the oldest daughter, Jude, who is a strong character and the one who usually stands up to her father; however, all of his children fear him.
When the teacher encourages Jude to socialize and date, things change for the entire family. Surprisingly, the mother becomes a key player when she makes a startling discovering and has to come to grips with her own past.
This film was made in Canada, and is really worth seeing.
Summary of After the Harvest
Playwright/actor Sam Shepard portrays a loathsomely villainous father lording it over his offspring while in conflict with a strikingly luminous Liane Balaban--who portrays a schoolteacher--in this dark drama about a dysfunctional Canadian prairie family coping with change. Jeremy Podeswa directed the film from a screenplay by Suzette Couture based on Martha Ostenso's 1927 novel THE WILD GEESE.System Requirements:Run Time: 95 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 084296404827 Manufacturer No: 40482Similar DVD Movies
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