Underplayed Gems

The Law of Enclosures (1999)

The Law of Enclosures poster
Directed by
John Greyson
Genre
drama film, LGBTQ-related film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 51m
Rating
4.9 of 10 from 10 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

The film shows the lifelong marriage of Henry and Beatrice from their first meetings to their 40th anniversary. The story jumps between their younger and older selves living in the same moment during the first Gulf War.

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What happens

The Law of Enclosures is a 2000 Canadian drama film. It was written and directed by John Greyson, and based on the novel The Law of Enclosures by Dale Peck. The story traces the marital relationship of Henry and Beatrice, characters based on Peck's real-life parents, over the course of their lives from their courtship as young adults to their 40th wedding anniversary. For the film adaptation, Greyson set the events in 1991 against the backdrop of the first Gulf War, with Henry and Beatrice's younger and older selves all coexisting in a single time frame. Sarah Polley and Brendan Fletcher play Beatrice and Henry as a young couple, with Diane Ladd and Sean McCann playing the older characters. While author Peck was born in New York and raised in Kansas, Greyson set the film in Sarnia, Ontario. The score was written by Don Pyle and Andrew Zealley. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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