NFB Collection
The Lotus Eaters
19931 h 40 min 51 secFilm: Fiction, Feature-length fiction
Direction: Paul Shapiro
Production: Jennifer TorranceSharon McGowanPeggy ThompsonAlexandra RafféArmand Leo
Script: Peggy Thompson
Co-produced by the NFB and Mortimer & Ogilvy Productions Limited with the financial assistance of Telefilm Canada, BC Film and Malo Films. For purchase, contact Malofilm Distribution Inc.
Set on a small Canadian west coast island in the 1960s, The Lotus Eaters is a comical story about an entire family losing their innocence. When a young school teacher from Quebec blows onto the island complete with a VW van and a mini-skirt, Hal Kingswood's mid-life crisis takes a turn for the worse and he begins an affair with her. His daughter Zoe turns to black magic spells to make things go back the way they were before. The film chronicles the moment when the staid and safe 1950s turned into the swinging Sixties.
Subject categories
- Families > Problems in the Family
Credits
- director
- Paul Shapiro
- producer
- Jennifer Torrance
- Sharon McGowan
- Peggy Thompson
- executive producer
- Alexandra Raffé
- associate producer
- Armand Leo
- script
- Peggy Thompson
- camera
- Tom Burstyn
- sound
- Michael McGee
- editing
- Susan Shipton
- re-recording
- Paul Sharpe
- Bill Sheppard
- Dean Giammarco
- music
- John Sereda
- cast
- Sheila McCarthy
- R.H. Thomson
- Frances Hyland
- Paul Soles
- Michelle Barbara Pelletier
- Tara Frederick
- Gabe Kouth
- Andrea Libman
- Aloka McLean