Nobody Waved Good-Bye

1964 80m director and script Don Owen, producers Roman Kroitor and Don Owen, cinematographer John Spotton, editors Donald Ginsberg and John Spotton, music Eldon Rathburn; with Peter Kastner, Julie Biggs, Claude Rae, Toby Tarnow, Charmion King, John Vernon and John Sullivan

Peter (Peter Kastner), an 18-year-old who lives with his parents and sister in a middle-class Toronto suburban wasteland in the early 1960s, is a rebel without a cause or a clue. He argues with his parents, skips school, makes his girlfriend pregnant (she leaves him), and is exploited by a hostile adult world when he leaves home. Ho finally runs away with stolen money and a stolen car. The film's Rebel without a Cause knock-off storyline is saved by beautiful performances and the purity of its intentions. Originally slated as a half-hour docudrama on juvenile delinquency by Don Owen for Unit B of the National Film Board, Nobody Waved Good-Bye was shot as a feature and went on to win critical acclaim in New York, and subsequently in Canada, and remains a seminal--if flawed--film in the development of early English-Canadian cinema.

AWARDS: BAFTA--Robert Flaherty Documentary Award; AV Trust--Masterwork

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