Hanging Garden, The
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Hanging Garden, The
-- Pretentious Canadian clunker about a homosexual (Chris Leavins) who returns home after a 10-year absence to attend his sister's wedding, then wallows in painful recollections of his abusive childhood and unhappy adolescence. Writer-director Thom Fitzgerald paints an ugly picture of a wildly dysfunctional Irish Catholic family in picturesque Nova Scotia but the intercutting of past and present, the real and the imaginary, proves hopelessly artifical and emotionally unconvincing. Some depiction of sex acts, religious caricature, bathroom humor, incessant rough language and frequent profanity. (O) (R)
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1998
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The classifications are as follows:
- A-I -- general patronage;
- A-II -- adults and adolescents;
- A-III -- adults;
- A-IV**
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** Discontinued classification. All archived movies that were originally in the A-IV category are now classified as L.