I'd like the dvd if anyone is lucky to have it and can post it.
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Canvas (2006)
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General Information
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Type.................: Movie
Runtime..............: 97 minutes
Preview Runtime......: 2 min 28 secs
Audio Format.........: MP3
Bitrate..............: 128
Hz...................: 48,000
Channels.............: Stereo
Video Format.........: DivX 5.2.0
Video Bitrate........: 1855 kb/s
Resolution...........: 720 x 404 (16:9)
FPS..................: 25.00
Movie Information....: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780492/
IMDB Rating..........: 6.5
Language.............: English
Subtitles............: None
CD1 Size.............: 703 MB
CD2 Size.............: 705 MB
Preview Size.........: 36 MB
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Plot Outline
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From IMDB
This film is one of the finest portrayals of mental illness I have
seen. Being a therapist myself, I know the stigma that comes with a
family member being diagnosed with schizophrenia and this film does
the struggle great justice.
The film follows the Marino family, who live in South Florida. Joe
Panteliano plays the father, a struggling working class man whose wife
(played beautifully by Marsha Gay Harden) has been diagnosed with
schziophrenia. They have a child named Chris who is struggling to find
his own identity while dealing with his mother's troubling illness.
In the beginning of the film, we see Mary's attempts to connect with
Chris through her artwork and his disappointment that she continues to
paint the same scene over and over, a beach with a lighthouse. We come
to discover through the movie that Mary holds onto this memory because
it is one of the last times she was able to really be a mother to
Chris. Mary, like many people with mental illness, believes she does
not need her medication and stops taking it. Mary decompensates one
night during a thunderstorm and becomes very paranoid and ends up
accidentally hurting Chris. Mary is then taken to a hospital, where
she stays for the remainder of the film.
Once Mary is hospitalized, the film turns its focus to John and Chris,
both trying to hold together their family and both failing to do so.
John begins building a sailboat in the backyard, both to distract
himself and to find comfort in an activity that he and Mary used to
enjoy. Chris turns to sewing t-shirts for his friends, and begins to
make money doing so. All the while, son and father are not connecting.
Mary's occasional visits home are disasterous and the family nearly
breaks apart when Chris tries to destroy the boat John has been
working on, in anger. In addition, John loses his job at the company
he has worked for for 20 years and is now completely on his own.
John finally realizes that he is all his son has and makes an effort
to connect with him, through fixing the boat. Chris uses the canvases
from his mother's paintings to patch the sail (hence the title) and
the two finally get to sail the boat together. The father and son even
pass his ex-boss and his bratty son in their fancy speedboat which is
stuck without fuel. Finally, John gets to fulfill a promise he made to
Mary and take her on the boat, even if it is just on a trailer around
the hospital.
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