Housekeeping (1987)

Directors

Bill Forsyth

Cast

Christine Lahti, Sara Walker, Andrea Burchill, Anne Pitoniak, Barbara Reese, Margot Pinvidic, Bill Smillie, Wayne Robson, Betty Phillips, Karen Elizabeth Austin, Dolores Drake, Georgie Collins, Tonya Tanner, Leah Penny, Brian Linds, Clayton W. Okell, Clay Barton, Erik Richardson, Bob Hughes, Sheila Paterson, Judi Pustil, Ron Koukal, Bob Elsdon, Hans 'Fritz' Farenholtz, Enid Saunders, Mike Daley, Gunter Voight, Isobel Louie, Antony Holland, Elizabeth Strong, Juli Bailey, Tiffany Ward, Jeannette Grittani, Adrian Naqvi, Michael Davidoff

The story

In 1950s northern Idaho, a young mother, Helen, leaves her two daughters, four-year-old Ruth and three-year-old Lucille, at her mother Sylvia's home, before driving her car off a cliff into nearby Lake Fingerbone, committing suicide. Sylvia raises the girls for seven years before her death, after which their great-aunts from Spokane, Washington, Lily and Nona, move in to care for them. Ruth and Lucille learn that their grandfather also died in Lake Fingerbone while riding on a train that plummeted off the trestle spanning the lake.

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