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Cast

Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, M�lanie Laurent, Cosmo View All

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Mike Mills (Screenplay), Mike Mills (Director) View All

Release: Jun. 9th, 2011

Runtime: 1 hour, 45 minutes

Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna only months after his father Hal Fields has passed away. This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father, who, following the death of his wife of 44 years, came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life � which included a younger boyfriend.

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Iroquois
The story mainly jumps back and forth between three different time periods; McGregor's childhood, his time with his ailing father, and also during his burgeoning relationship with a young woman (Mlanie Laurent).

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Gideon58
Mary Page Keller, an actress who has been off the radar for quite awhile, is very effective as Georgia as is Goran Visnjic as Hal's young lover, but shining above them all, in a performance that won him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar, is Christopher Plummer as Hal, the man who finally found the coura....