: Restless Spirits
Cool little Canadian film about a 12-year-old girl recovering from the death of her pilot father a few years earlier. Her brother won’t talk and she and her mother fight constantly. They move to their grandmother’s in Newfoundland, where the girl meets some ghosts. The ghosts turn out to be two French pilots who’d flown from France in 1928 attempting to beat Lindberg at crossing the Atlantic, but crashed in Newfoundland. The trick is that the ghosts don’t know they’re ghosts, or that it’s 70 years later. Every time the fog comes in, they relive the crash again. Anyway, helping the lost pilots helps the girl cope with the loss of her father. Sounds a lot like a Hallmark movie-of-the-week thing, but very well written, with realism, logic, and sly humor. The girl is terrific.
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