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The Summer We Moved to Elm Street
196628 min 2 secFilm: Fiction
Direction: Patricia Watson
Production: Guy Glover
Script: Patricia Watson
In our mobile society some families move a lot, and children have to make new friends just when they are becoming comfortable with the ones they have. This film tries to show what goes on in the mind of a nine-year-old girl who finds her happiness disturbed both by a move to another street and by her father's increasing drunkenness.
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Subject categories
- Families > ChildrenParent-Child RelationshipsProblems in the Family
- Children and Youth > Family LifeLiving Conditions
Credits
- director
- Patricia Watson
- script
- Patricia Watson
- producer
- Guy Glover
- photography
- Jean-Claude Labrecque
- sound
- Jacques Drouin
- editing
- Kathleen Shannon
- sound editing
- Kathleen Shannon
- re-recording
- Ron Alexander
- Roger Lamoureux
- Michel Descombes
- cast
- Darlene Harcourt
- Jane Morphew
- Maggi Morris
- Larry Reynolds