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Keeping the Promise (1997) (TV)
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5 January 1997 (USA) morePlot:
Harsh elements, disease and dilemmas mark a Massachusetts family's move to uncharted Maine and a better life in 1768. | add synopsisUser Comments:
Sensitive and intelligent period piece more (2 total)Cast
(Credited cast) | Keith Carradine | ... | William (Will) Hallowell |
 | Annette O'Toole | ... | Anne Hallowell |
 | Brendan Fletcher | ... | Matthew (Matt) Hallowell |
| Gordon Tootoosis | ... | Sakniss |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Maury Chaykin | ... | Hunter Ben Loomis |
| David Cubitt | ... | Boat Agent |
| Darrell Dennis | ||
| Allegra Denton | ... | Sarah Hallowell |
 | Nell Geisslinger | ||
| William Lightning | ... | Attean |
| Ashley Saulnier | ... | Older Child |
| Ben Saulnier | ... | Young Man Walking |
| Justin Saulnier | ... | Young Child |
| Pauline Saulnier | ... | Woman with Children |
| Todd Saulnier | ... | Man loading drum onto ship |
| Camilla Scott | ... | Josie |
| Michael Stevens | ... | Colonial |
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Based on the children's novel, 'Sign Of The Beaver', this is a sensitive and intelligent period piece, for the most part underplayed - a style which lends the movie a ring of authenticity. The cast is excellent, but the movie belongs to the young Canadian Brendan Fletcher as Matt Hallowell, surviving alone in a cabin in the middle of nowhere. There are several particularly moving scenes, carried by Fletcher's appealing screen presence. Surely he is a big star of the future. There is also a heart-rending performance from Annette O'Toole as the much-enduring mother with a catch in her throat that could melt the stoniest heart. I don't wish to give the impression this is mawkish or sentimental in any way, it isn't, but what keeps me going back to it as well as Brendan Fletcher's performance, is the soundtrack, which is haunting and evocative and, alas, not available commercially!