While I Was Gone

While I Was Gone

120 mins | Oct. 10, 2004

Jo Beckett leads a comfortable life with a successful veterinary practice, a devoted husband, and a beautiful home in a lovely small town outside of Boston. Still, she is strangely dissatisfied with her life. One afternoon, a man brings his dog into her veterinary practice to be treated, and Jo recognizes him as Eli, a former housemate from her bohemian days more than 20 years ago. 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.

While I Was Gone

120 mins | Oct. 10, 2004

While I Was Gone
Jo Beckett leads a comfortable life with a successful veterinary practice, a devoted husband, and a beautiful home in a lovely small town outside of Boston. Still, she is strangely dissatisfied with her life. One afternoon, a man brings his dog into her veterinary practice to be treated, and Jo recognizes him as Eli, a former housemate from her bohemian days more than 20 years ago. 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.
IMDb rating 4.8
Producers Manitoba Film & Music, Von Zerneck Sertner Films, The Government of Manitoba
Original title While I Was Gone
Directors Mike Robe
Writers Sue Miller, Alan Sharp

Cast

Kirstie Alley

as Jo Beckett

Bill Smitrovich

as Reverend Daniel Beckett

Janaya Stephens

as Cass Beckett

Peter Horton

as Eli Mayhew

Deborah Odell

as Sylvia Mayhew

Brooke Palsson

as Jo Beckett's Daughter