Director : Sarah Polley Release
Date : 27 April 2007 Genres :
Drama, Romance Cast : Gordon Pinsent, Stacey
LaBerge, Julie Christie, Olympia Dukakis, Deanna Dezmari, Clare
Coulter, Thomas Hauff, Alberta Watson, Grace Lynn Kung, Lili Francks,
Andrew Moodie, Wendy Crewson
Grant and Fiona Anderson
have been married for forty-four years. Their marriage has been a
generally happy and loving one although not perfect due to some
indiscretions when Grant was working as a college professor. Fiona has
just been admitted to Meadowlake, a long term care facility near their
country home in southwestern Ontario, because her recent lapses of
memory have been diagnosed as a probable case of Alzheimer's disease.
She and Grant made this decision together, although a still lucid Fiona
seems to have made peace with the decision and her diagnosis more so
than Grant. With respect to the facility, what Grant has the most
difficulty with are what he sees as the sadness associated with the
facility's second floor - where the more advanced cases are housed - but
most specifically the facility's policy of no visitors within the first
thirty days of admission to allow the patient to adjust more easily to
their new life there...
