- While I Was Gone (film)
Infobox Film
name = While I Was Gone
caption =
imdb_id = 0428044
writer =Sue Miller (novel)
andAlan Sharp (teleplay)
starring =Kirstie Alley Bill Smitrovich Peter Horton Janaya Stephens Kim Poirier
andDeborah Odell
director =Mike Robe
producer =Ted Babcock Randy Sutter Richard Fischoff
distributor = CBS | released = 2004
runtime = 120 min. (including commercials)
language = English
budget =
music =
awards ="While I Was Gone" (2004) is a CBS TV movie about a
veterinarian , unhappy in her life and in her marriage to Daniel (Bill Smitrovich ), a local minister. Whilst treating a dog, she learns that the animal belongs to Eli Mayhew (Peter Horton ), a former college friend of hers, and Jo's past as a radical student during the 1960s comes back to life. Her restlessness and discontent increase and Jo wonders if her life could have turned out differently.tory
Jo Beckett (Alley) leads a comfortable life with a successful veterinary practice, a devoted husband, Reverend Daniel Beckett (Bill Smitrovich), and a beautiful home in a lovely small town outside of Boston. Still, she is strangely dissatisfied with her life. One day, while sitting in a boat with her husband, Jo has an out-of-body type experience during which she looks down upon the boat and does not see herself in it. As she describes the feeling to Daniel later that evening, she feels that the experience is some sort of premonition.
One afternoon, a man brings his dog into her veterinary practice to be treated, and Jo recognizes him as Eli (Peter Horton), a former housemate from her bohemian days more than 20 years ago, who is now married and has moved to her small town. Though they were never involved in the past, Eli is still attractive to Jo and when he invites her to lunch at a fancy hotel in Boston, she goes with the intention of sleeping with him. Instead, Eli reveals a secret to Jo that returns her to the darkest moments of her past and threatens to destroy life as she knows it.
Cast
Kirstie Alley as Jo BeckettBill Smitrovich as Daniel BeckettJanaya Stephens as Cass BeckettPeter Horton as Eli MayhewDeborah Odell as SylviaSandra Caldwell as BettyRebecca Benson as Young Jo BeckettJeff Topping as Young Eli MayhewKim Poirier as Dana JablonskiRyan Kennedy as DuncanAdam Smoluk as LarryTyler Hynes as Malky McDowellRiver Ferreira as Jesus MartinezKevin Williams as Byron HallShauna MacDonald as Detective GearyBill Lake as Sergeant Eberhart
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