The Law of Enclosures (film)

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2000 Canadian film

The Law of Enclosures

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Directed by| John Greyson
Written by| John Greyson
Based on| The Law of Enclosures by Dale Peck
Produced by| Damon D'Oliveira
John Greyson
Phyllis Laing
Starring| Sarah Polley
Brendan Fletcher
Cinematography| Kim Derko
Edited by| Mike Munn
Music by| Don Pyle
Andrew Zealley

Production
company

Alliance Atlantis Communications

Distributed by| Momentum Pictures

Release date

* September 15, 2000 (2000-09-15) (TIFF)

Running time

| 111 minutes
Country| Canada
Language| English
Budget| $2 million
Box office| $1,000

The Law of Enclosures is a 2000 Canadian drama film. It was written and directed by John Greyson, and based on the novel The Law of Enclosures by Dale Peck.

The story traces the marital relationship of Henry and Beatrice, characters based on Peck's real-life parents, over the course of their lives from their courtship as young adults to their 40th wedding anniversary. For the film adaptation, Greyson set the events in 1991 against the backdrop of the first Gulf War, with Henry and Beatrice's younger and older selves all coexisting in a single time frame.

Sarah Polley and Brendan Fletcher play Beatrice and Henry as a young couple, with Diane Ladd and Sean McCann playing the older characters. While author Peck was born in New York and raised in Kansas, Greyson set the film in Sarnia, Ontario. The score was written by Don Pyle and Andrew Zealley.

## Cast

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* Sarah Polley as Beatrice
* Brendan Fletcher as Henry
* Diane Ladd as Bea
* Sean McCann as Hank
* Kristen Thomson as Myrah
* Rob Stefaniuk as Stanley
* Shirley Douglas as Myra
* Victor Cowie as Stan
* Sharon Bajer as Doctor
* Darcy Fehr as Young Miller

## Award

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* Brendan Fletcher won Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role at the 22nd Genie Awards.

## External links

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* The Law of Enclosures at IMDb
* The Law of Enclosures at AllMovie
* The Law of Enclosures at Rotten Tomatoes
* The Law of Enclosures at the TCM Movie Database

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Films directed by John Greyson

* Pissoir (1988)
* The Making of Monsters (1991)
* Zero Patience (1993)
* Lilies (1996)
* Uncut (1997)
* The Law of Enclosures (2000)
* Proteus (2003)
* Fig Trees (2009)
* International Dawn Chorus Day (2021)

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