December 31, 1998
Release Date

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The Fishing Trip (1998)

Name: The Fishing Trip
Released: 1998-12-31

1h 24m

Running Time

December 31, 1998
Release Date

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Plot.

In this moving drama, three young Canadian women embark upon a journey to face and lay to rest their painful pasts. Though Kirsti (Jhene Erwin) is twenty-one and living independently as a college student, she remains haunted by horrible memories of being raped by her stepfather Harold (Jim Kinney). He also performed this vile act on her little sister Jessie (Melissa Hood). Unable to bear the psychological anguish, Kirsti decides to confront her ab and so visits her mother (Diana Tabak) only to find that Harold and his son Jacob (T.J. Grist) are at their fishing cabin up north, the very place where the attacks first occurred.

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Cast & Crew.

Anna Henry

Murdoch

Amnon Buchbinder

Director

Jhene Erwin

Kristi

Melissa Hood

Jessie

M. A. Lovretta

Writer

David Buchbinder

Composer

Derek Rogers

Cinematographer

Roushell Goldstein

Editor

Liza Balkan

CastingDirector

Details.

Release Date

December 31, 1998

Status

Released

Running Time

1h 24m

Last updated: 2025-02-14

Wiki.

The Fishing Trip is a Canadian drama film, directed by Amnon Buchbinder and released in 1998. The film stars Jhene Erwin as Kirsti, a young woman who is travelling with her sister Jessie (Melissa Hood) and their friend Murdoch (Anna Henry) to Kirsti and Jessie's father's fishing cabin, to confront their father about his history of committing sexual abuse against them in childhood.

The film, made while Buchbinder was a student at the Canadian Film Centre, was shot in St. Joseph Island and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

The film received two Genie Award nominations at the 19th Genie Awards, for Best ing Actress (Henry) and Best Original Song (Suzie Ungerleider for "River Blue"). Ungerleider won the award for Best Original Song.