The Hanging Garden
The Hanging Garden is a British-Canadian drama film, written and directed by Thom Fitzgerald and released in 1997. Fitzgerald's feature debut, the film was shot in Nova Scotia.
Plot
The film's central character is Sweet William, as both a thin adult and a fat teenager. Its plot hinges on a fateful incident from his teenage years, when his grandmother caught him attempting to have sex with his bisexual friend Fletcher, involuntarily outing him to his dysfunctional family as gay.
Awards
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| author | Thom Fitzgerald |
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| award | Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Film |
| contentLocation | Nova Scotia |
| director | Thom Fitzgerald |
| editor | Susan Shanks |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | alcoholic father big city dead body dysfunctional family first time gay hang haunt homecoming life and death run away suicide suicide by hanging triptych walk wed |
| musicBy | John Roby |
| producer | Arnie Gelbart Louise Garfield |
| publisher | Alliance Communications Momentum Pictures |
| recordedAt | Nova Scotia |
| theme | lgbt-related magic realism |