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Signs of Life

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:13:41 -0500

SIGNS OF LIFE stars veteran actor Arthur Kennedy as a cranky, set-in-his-ways Maine shipbuilder. Unable to keep apace with the 1980s, Kennedy is forced to close up shop. The film probes the various effects this decision has on Kennedy's employees.

Signs Of Life

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:06:35 -0500

A touching story of life in rural Maine, and the changes brought about by the closing of a town's small boat-building company -- on which many of the residents depended for their living. Now former workers must decide whether to stay or go...decisions that will affect the small town forever.

Signs Of Life

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 07:28:35 -0500

Signs of Life

Mon, 05 May 2008 15:23:52 -0500

Sarah wanted to die - but didn't quite make it. Trapped in a body paralysed by immobility and silence, Sarah wants to live - but can't quite make it. Signs of Life is an intimate film about the will to live and the power of thought and feelings in that process. Told entirely from the perspective of the central character, Sarah Ives, this is the moving story of a young woman trapped in a body diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. Yet she can perceive what is going on around her, but is unable to intervene, to explain or to express her feelings. An attempted suicide has put her into this state; though she now finds herself wanting to live more than ever. However, the medical consensus around her is gradually persuading Sarah's distraught mother that her daughter is, for all intents and purposes, dead. There is talk of permissions to donate organs, even talk of applying to the Courts to secure a passage to 'death with dignity' in the name of Sarah's 'quality of life'. Sarah

Signs of Life

Mon, 05 May 2008 12:56:00 -0500