Overview - The Wars

Overview

Robert Ross (Brent Carver) lives a protected adolescence in a well-off Toronto suburb. Secretive and withdrawn, he shares his thoughts only with his sister Rowena (Anne-Marie MacDonald) who is mentally disabled. He feels compassion for his weak and conventional father. He avoids any confrontation with his mother (Martha Henry), a dominating woman whose despondency at having given birth to a handicapped child has turned to bitterness. Rowena occupies a central position in Robert's existence of daydreams and make-believe. When she dies, Robert clashes openly with his family, and decides to take himself in hand. It's 1914. He enrolls in the Canadian army, and, after training in Alberta and Montreal, he finds himself in England and France. The war becomes another way for him to resolve his conflicts, his dramas, his passions--his wars.

Cast

• Name: Brent Carver

  Character: Robert Ross

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• Name: Kirsten Bishop

  Character: Peggy Ross

  Popularity: 0.4249

  

• Name: Jackie Burroughs

  Character: Miss Davenport

  Popularity: 0.7743

  

• Name: Shirley Douglas

  Character: Mrs. Lawson

  Popularity: 0.3461

  

• Name: William Hutt

  Character: Mr. Ross

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• Name: Domini Blythe

  Character: Lady Barbara d'Orsey

  Popularity: 1.1346

  

• Name: Margaret Tyzack

  Character: Lady Emmeline

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• Name: Jean LeClerc

  Character: Captain Taffler

  Popularity: 0.7273