Hanging Garden, The


Release Information: November 7, 1997; 15 cities; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); November 7, 1997; 15 cities; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); November 7, 1997; Montréal (Parisien); Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); November 7, 1997; Montréal (Parisien); Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); January 30, 1998; 15 cities; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); January 30, 1998; 15 cities; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); January 30, 1998; Montréal (Parisien); Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); January 30, 1998; Montréal (Parisien); Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)


Funding Sources: Société de développement des entreprises culturelles (SODEC)
Film Nova Scotia
Telefilm Canada
Canadian Heritage: CPTC
CAVCO: Canadian Heritage
Harold Greenberg Fund (Astral)

Budget: Budget: $1,600,000

Production Details


Executive Producer: Louise Garfield; Arnie Gelbart; Arnie Gelbart; Arnie Gelbart; Arnie Gelbart; Arnie Gelbart; Arnie Gelbart; Arnie Gelbart; Arnie Gelbart

91 minutes, 1996

Sweet William is a slim trim 25-year-old gay man who returns home after a bitter absence of ten years to celebrate his sister=s wedding in the family garden. Everything is pretty much as he left it. His drunken and abusive father Mac is still tending the flower garden and not his family, while his mother Iris suffers in guilt-ridden silence. His grandmother Grace is even more senile and obsessively religious, the dog is blind and his chain-smoking, foul mouthed sister Rosemary is as warm and boisterous as ever. Nothing has changed, except for Sweet William.

Source: Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)

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