Unfinished Business(1984)

Name: Unfinished Business
Director: Don Owen
Released: 1984-07-11
Rating: 7
Cast: Isabelle Mejias, Peter Spence, Leslie Toth, Julie Biggs, Chuck Shamata

07/11/1984 (US)Drama1h 31m

7.0

"Izzy's Breaking Out and No One Is Going To Stop Her."

Overview

Seventeen year old Izzy Marks lives in Toronto with her divorced mother and finds her life boring and directionless. Meant to be a sequel to Don Owen's acclaimed 1964 film "Nobody Waved Good-bye", "Unfinished Business" looks at life two decades later for Peter and Julie's (Peter Kastner and Julie Biggs) daughter Isabelle "Izzy" Marks (Isabelle Mejias). Curious, funny and intelligent, 17 year old Izzy feels the frustrations of her limiting environment and the pull of a more exciting, larger world. She meets passionate anarchist wannabe Jessie 'Fixit' (Peter Spence) and is quickly drawn into his free living alternative lifestyle. Much to the displeasure of her once free-thinking parents and friends.

Don Owen

Director

Don Owen

Writer

Top Billed Cast

Isabelle Mejias

Isabelle Marks

Peter Spence

Jessie 'Fixit'

Leslie Toth

Matthew

Julie Biggs

Julie Marks

Chuck Shamata

Carl

Jane Foster

Jackie

Melleny Melody

Larissa / Larry

Peter Kastner

Peter Marks

Ann-Marie MacDonald

Paula

Ann Medina

TV Announcer / Newscaster

Marc Gomes

Cecil

Maggie Huculak

Lyn

Reg Dreger

Ken

Mark Dennis

Terrance

Allegra Fulton

Script Assistant

Popularity Trend

Last 30 Days

This chart shows the popularity trend over the past 30 days.

Part of the The Marks Family Cycle

Eighteen-year-old malcontent Peter Marks, chafing against his middle-class comfort in 1960s Toronto, knocks up his girlfriend Julie. His criminal tendencies prove too much for her, and the first film ends with the couple poised to go their separate ways. In the second film, we learn that Peter and Julie did marry and settle down into adulthood, then divorced. Now they cope with the rebelliousness of their own 17-year-old daughter Isabelle and attempt to reconcile their faded ideals with their lives as suburban parents. The first film, Nobody Waved Good-bye, was heavily improvised to the point that it won a BAFTA Award for documentary in 1965. In keeping with that documentary conceit, the sequel was filmed twenty years on.