Four kids stick together after the tragic death of their
parents
The Morrison family, Scottish Presbyterian farmers living in
a remote part of Northern Ontario, suffers a major tragedy when the parents are
killed in an accident with a logging truck. The aunts and uncles decide that the
four children, two older boys and two young girls, must be divvied up among the
relatives. The oldest son sacrifices his
chance at college to try to keep the family together. Meanwhile, they have disturbing neighbors.
Had to bail on this one.
Too much heavy handed dialogue and too much repetition. The
structure of the story is the older daughter ruefully looking back and too much of the plot propulsion came from her
ginned up referencing but not explaining an unspoken situation that happened in the past
which caused the loss of their dreams. This
was an example of “situation, not story.”
The narrator just sat back, wringing her hands. Too much weight was
placed upon the big reveal, and I didn’t care enough about the rather passive
characters to wait around to see what might happen.
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