Monkey Beach (2020)

  • 14A
  • 10/03/2020 (CA)
  • Mystery
  • 1h 45m

Overview

Five hundred miles north of Vancouver is Kitamaat, an Indian reservation in the homeland of the Haisla people. Growing up a tough, wild tomboy, swimming, fighting, and fishing in a remote village where the land slips into the green ocean on the edge of the world, Lisamarie has always been different. Visited by ghosts and shapeshifters, tormented by premonitions, she can't escape the sense that something terrible is waiting for her. She recounts her enchanted yet scarred life as she journeys in her speedboat up the frigid waters of the Douglas Channel. She is searching for her brother, dead by drowning, and in her own way running as fast as she can toward danger. Circling her brother's tragic death are the remarkable characters that make up her family: Lisamarie's parents, struggling to join their Haisla heritage with Western ways; Uncle Mick, a Native rights activist and devoted Elvis fan; and the headstrong Ma-ma-oo (Haisla for "grandmother"), a guardian of tradition.

Eden Robinson

Novel

Loretta Todd

Director, Screenplay

Andrew Duncan

Screenplay

Johnny Darrell

Screenplay

Cast

Grace Dove's headshot

Grace Dove

Lisa Hill
Adam Beach's headshot

Adam Beach

Uncle Mick
Nathaniel Arcand's headshot

Nathaniel Arcand

Albert Hill
Stefany Mathias's headshot

Stefany Mathias

Gladys Hill
Glen Gould's headshot

Glen Gould

Josh
Joel Oulette's headshot

Joel Oulette

Jimmy Hill
Tina Marie Lameman's headshot

Tina Marie Lameman

Ma-ma-oo
Sera-Lys McArthur's headshot

Sera-Lys McArthur

Tabitha

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