Heaven On Earth (1987)
March 1, 1987Release Date
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Cast & Crew.

R.H. Thomson
Wilf Hawthorne

Jan Austin
Catherine Hawthorne

Sarah Polley
Becky Hawthorne

Nathan Adamson
Joe Hawthorne

Fiona Reid
Abigail Hawthorne

Sian Leisa Davies
Megan Davies

Amos Crawley
Robin Davies

Cedric Smith
Mr. MacDonald

Maureen McRae
Mrs. MacDonald

Huw Davies
Gareth Andrews

Torquil Campbell
Len Hawkins

David Hughes
Arnold Croft

Judy Sinclair
Hazel Croft

Donna Edwards
Sophie Payne

Peter Pearson
Writer

Eric Peterson
Owen Baker

James Bradford
Official

Peter Ferri
Stevedore

Meg Hogarth
Miss Simpson

Robert Haley
Doctor

Alison MacLeod
Lorna Laird

Gerard Parkes
Reverend Laird

George Buza
Field Worker

Jack Jessop
Stationmaster

Dennis O'Connor
Carnival Barker

Tony Desmond
Boy Assailant

Larry Schwartz
Tramp

Antonio Cairo
Tramp

Loreena McKennitt
Lady Traveller

Nicholas Rice
Gentleman Traveller

Allan Kroeker
Director

W. Paterson Ferns
Producer

Nancy Trites-Botkin
Co-Producer

Rodney Charters
Cinematography

Terence Ryan
Executive Producer

Lara Mazur
Editor

Margaret Atwood
Writer

Peter Pearson
Writer

Ray Marshall
Executive Producer
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Heaven on Earth is a British and Canadian dramatic television film, directed by Allan Kroeker and released in 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.
The film's screenplay was written by Margaret Atwood and Peter Pearson. 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.
Thomson received a Gemini Award nomination for Best Actor in a Television Film or Miniseries at the 2nd Gemini Awards.