Chris William Martin, Deborah Kara Unger, Frank Borg
Emile returns to Canada, the country of his birth, after a lengthy absence. This triggers a remarkable journey into the consciousness of a man in his twilight years, melding past and present and askin...( read more
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DVD Release Date: April 26, 2005
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October 11, 2007This movie has good and bad. First, it drags. Emile, the main character is flashing back throughout the movie - I think sometimes you see him as a young Emile, but sometimes he keeps his current age. It is all confusing. However, if you last beyond the first hour, the story b...( read more)
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February 2, 2009I liked the movie a lot more than I expected. Not that I thought it was going to be a bad movie, but I had no real concept of what I'd think of it so really enjoying it was a nice surprise. We had heard it was slow, but I actually found it to be quite gripping and as such it didn...( read more)
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October 12, 2007Ian McKellen stars as a Saskatchewan-born professor who spent most of his life in England and now returns to Canada to receive a degree and to visit his niece whom he has never met. As the story unfolds, we discover the emotional scars beneath the surface of each character that p...( read more)
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September 27, 2007A touching story about a mans forgotten memories and how he chooses to handle them. Partly slow but never the less moving and interesting.
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July 22, 2007Loses points for the cop-out ending (no WAY would she forgive him that fast), but wonderful up until that point
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August 26, 2006it was good. i think i enjoyed this more than most people. its really really slow, but it does reward the patient.
ian mckellen does a really really good job, he was really well cast, i even think that thats one of his best performance's. as with deborah unger, i don't really l...( read more)
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