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While I Was Gone

While I Was Gone

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 10, 2004

Runtime

2h 0m

Genres

Drama, TV Movie

User Score

47%

Original Title

While I Was Gone

Production Companies

Von Zerneck Sertner Films, The Government of Manitoba, MFM, CBS

Director

Mike Robe

Description

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.