Taglines: Suddenly, Isabel was afraid — afraid of becoming a woman.
Isabel movie storyline. Learning of her mother’s serious illness, Isabel (Geneviève Bujold) returns to her family’s farm on the Gaspé Peninsula. Her mother dies before she can get there, and when her aged uncle Matthew (Gerard Parkes) asks her to stay on and help him with the farm, she reluctantly agrees. She finds herself haunted by memories of early years (domestic violence, incest and the mysterious deaths of her grandfather, who died in a freak accident, and her father and brother, who both drowned at sea) in a house full of eerie sights and sounds.
Isabel is a Canadian film directed by Paul Almond and starring Shea Whigham, Olivia Munn, Zach Avery, Bruce Dern, Frank Grillo, Keith David, Taryn Manning, Mark Boone Junior, Jessica Medina, Taegen Burns, Jay Hieron and Alexander Wraith. The screenplay, written by Alexander Felix and originally titled Where Angels Die, was included in the 2013 Black List.
Isabel (1968)
Directed by: Paul Almond
Starring: Geneviève Bujold, Marc Strange, Gerard Parkes, Elton Hayes, Edie Kerr, Al Waxman, Ratch Wallace, Lynden Bechervaise, Eric Clavering, Therese Cadorette, Rob Hayes, J. Donald Dow
Screenplay by: Paul Almond
Cinematography by: Georges Dufaux
Film Editing by: George Appleby
Music by: Harry Freedman
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: July 23, 1968
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