Unfinished Business

19841 h 30 minFilm: Fiction, Feature-length fiction

Direction: Don Owen

Production: Annette CohenDon OwenDon HaigDouglas DalesRobert Verrall

Script: Don Owen

Co-produced by Zebra Films Company Ltd. and the NFB with the participation of the Canadian Film Development Corporation.

This film continues Nobody Waved Goodbye, made 20 years ago. Seventeen-year-old Izzy Marks meets and gets involved with street-wise Jesse. He leads her into the world of New Wave music, the confrontations of the anti-nuke movement, and her first experience with sex and love. Suddenly she finds herself caught in a web of violence and faced with a series of choices. The hard answers she must find become an exciting rite of passage.

Subject categories


  • Children and Youth > Adolescent Social BehaviourRunaways and Street ChildrenSexuality
  • Law and Crime > Adolescents
  • Social Issues > AdolescentsSocial Problems

Credits


director
Don Owen
screenplay
Don Owen
producer
Annette Cohen
Don Owen
executive producer
Don Haig
Douglas Dales
Robert Verrall
camera
Douglas Kiefer
sound
Bryan Day
editing
David Nicholson
Peter Dale
sound editing
Peter Thillaye
Michael O'Farrell
music
Patricia Cullen
Norman Orenstein
Alta Moda
The Parachute Club
cast
Julie Biggs
Melanie Brown
Jane Foster
Peter Kastner
Isabelle Mejias
Chuck Shamata
Peter Spence
Leslie Toth