While I Was Gone

Story

Synopsis

Jo Beckett leads a comfortable life with a successful veterinary practice, a devoted husband, and a beautiful home in a lovely small town outside of Boston. Still, she is strangely dissatisfied with her life. One afternoon, a man brings his dog into her veterinary practice to be treated, and Jo recognizes him as Eli, a former housemate from her bohemian days more than 20 years ago. When he invites her to lunch at a fancy hotel in Boston, she goes with the intention of sleeping with him. Instead, Eli reveals a secret to Jo that returns her to the darkest moments of her past and threatens to destroy life as she knows it.

Director

Mike Robe

Writers

Alan Sharp, Sue Miller

Language

English

Country

Canada, United States of America

Release date

10 October 2004

Ensemble

Cast

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  Kirstie Alley

  Jo Beckett

• 

  Bill Smitrovich

  Daniel Beckett

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  Janaya Stephens

  Cass Beckett

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  Peter Horton

  Eli Mayhew

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  Deborah Odell

  Sylvia Mayhew

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  Shauna MacDonald

  Detective Geary

• 

  Sandra Caldwell

  Betty

• Rebecca Benson

  Young Jo Beckett

• Jeff Topping

  Young Eli Mayhew

• 

  Kim Poirier

  Dana Jablonski

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  Ryan Kennedy

  Duncan

• Adam Smoluk

  Larry