
29 May 2007

The Mourning Forest
A young woman working at a retirement home takes an elderly man living there on an excursion into the countryside, but the two wind up stranded in the titular forest.
Peter Schermann is angry at the world after his children move him into a nursing home. Still physically and mentally strong, he searches for a meaning to his life in a new and uncompromising world.
Peter Schermann
Heloise Michaud
George
Dr. Gettlinger
Josepha
Evelyn
Phil
Margaret
Young Rose
Arthur Selig
Marian
Dr. Keller
Mrs. Stone
McDermott
Slocum
Ragle
Mrs. Flagler
Mary
Laura
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