24 Apr 2009
Don McKay
Everything appears off-kilter when a man returns to his hometown after 25 years to visit his former lover.
Brand Upon the Brain!
After returning home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.
Top Billed Cast
Isabella Rossellini Interlocuter
Erik Steffen Maahs Grown-up Guy Maddin
Sullivan Brown Young Guy Maddin
Gretchen Krich Mother
Maya Lawson Sis
Jake Morgan-Scharhon Chance Hale / Wendy Hale
Andrew Loviska Savage Tom
Kellan Larson Neddie
Todd Jefferson Moore Father
Megan Murphy Murderous Sister
Cathleen O'Malley Young Mother
Clayton Corzatte Old Father
Susan Corzatte Old Mother
Annette Toutonghi Murderous Sister
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