In a near-empty Northfork orphanage, Father Harlan gently tends to Irwin, an eight-year-old who lies between a dream state and death. As orphanage caretaker Harlan reads aloud about Northfork’s years-ago forced evacuation to make way for a hydro-electric dam, Irwin’s imagination takes flight. While a team of six men evacuate the last remaining citizens of the town, Irwin, too, invents a cast of characters to prepare himself for his own evacuation. (the above states the caretaker – who is actually the priest – is reading about a years-ago evacuation. In the movie, the evacuation is taking place as the boy lays dying!)
Release Date: 1 August 2003Runtime: 103 min
Stars:
- Anthony Edwards
- Ben Foster
- Claire Forlani
- Daryl Hannah
- Douglas Sebern
- Duel Farnes
- Graham Beckel
- James Woods
- Jon Gries
- Josh Barker
- Mark Polish
- Nick Nolte
- Peter Coyote
- Rick Overton
- Robin Sachs
Director: Michael Polish