70-something Melanie invites her once young and idealistic hippie friends for a long-overdue reunion where everyone is told they have inherited the cabin where they once lived together in a commune fifty years earlier.
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Barbara Williams
Melanie
Tommie-Amber Pirie
Lyla
Peter MacNeill
R.H. Thomson
Terri Hawkes
Barry Flatman
Josh Bainbridge
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The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.
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A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.
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