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Eighteen is a canadien film of genre Drama directed by Richard Bell with Brendan Fletcher
Eighteen (2005)
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Add to a movie listEighteen is a 2005 Canadian drama film written and directed by Richard Bell.
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The film follows Pip, a street kid who's meeting life head-on in the big city. On his eighteenth birthday he receives his grandfather's Second World War memoirs on audio cassette, a gift that awakens the ghost of the long lost world. His grandfather relates the story of the day he turned eighteen, fleeing German forces through the woods of France with a dying comrade hanging on for life. In Pip's own and contemporary way, he begins to live the parallel life of his grandfather, both lost in their environments and generations. Along Pip's path he stumbles into an unlikely alliance with Clark, a gay street hustler on the make, and Jenny, an aspiring social worker who tempts Pip with feelings of love and domesticity. He also forges a small but important relationship with a local priest, in whom he confides his deepest secret: the death of his brother and the heinous act his father committed against him before his passing.Actors
Brendan Fletcher
(Jason Anders)
Carly pope
(Jenny)
Mark Hildreth
(Macauley)
Thea Gill
(Hannah)
Alan Cumming
(Father Chris)
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