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Heaven on Earth (1987 film)
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'Heaven on Earth' is a British and Canadian dramatic television film, directed by Allan Kroeker and released in 1987.John Haslett Cuff, "No sloppy melodrama here: Road to Heaven paved with charm". 'The Globe and Mail', February 28, 1987. A coproduction of the BBC and CBC Television, the film centres on a group of orphaned children from the United Kingdom who are sent to Canada as Home Children in the 1910s.Jim Bawden, "Fine script moves Heaven On Earth right to heart". 'Toronto Star', February 28, 1987.
The film's screenplay was written by Margaret Atwood and Peter Pearson.Roy Shields, "Heaven sent: Turning her hand to TV scriptwriting Margaret Atwood tells the story of English orphans brought to Canada in CBC's Heaven On Earth". 'Toronto Star', February 28, 1987. However, Atwood was critical of the finished product, as Kroeker and Nancy Botkin inserted a sexual assault scene she had not written and did not endorse as it did not fit her historical research into the Home Children.
The cast included Torquil Campbell, Sarah Polley, Fiona Reid, Sian Leisa Davies, Nathan Adamson, Amos Crawley, Huw Davies, Donna Edwards, David Hughes, Alison MacLeod, Loreena McKennitt, Maureen McRae, Nicholas Rice, Judy Sinclair, Cedric Smith and R.H. Thomson.
The film was broadcast on March 1, 1987, both as an episode of the anthology series 'Screen Two' on the BBC and as a standalone television film on the CBC. In 1988 it was broadcast in the United States as an episode of 'Masterpiece Theatre', the first Canadian production ever anthologized by that series.Jim Bawden, "Heaven On Earth to producer is life on Masterpiece Theatre". 'Toronto Star', March 15, 1988.
Thomson received a Gemini Award nomination for Best Actor in a Television Film or Miniseries at the 2nd Gemini Awards.Bill Anderson, "Out-of production Seeing Things tops nominations". 'Ottawa Citizen', October 22, 1987.
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