Dormancy (2018)
Drama · History
Overview
Set in 1932, at the height of prohibition and the growing American eugenics movement, the state of Vermont passes a law allowing for sexual sterilization of "idiots, imbeciles, feeble minded or insane persons likely to procreate." Dormancy follows a young woman and her new husband who work the land and earn a small income herding sheep and working with lumber. The couple is lured into a rural clinic where they subjected to the sadistic goals of the doctors and eugenics field workers. For this modest family, life will never be quite the same...
Cast
- Pierre-Luc Désilets as Jacob Cloutier
- Lee Goldberg as Emily Cloutier
- Blanca Vivancos as Mother Ann
- Dennis Cunningham as Dr. Geralds
- Jessica Rheault as Nurse #1
- Nicholas W. Callais as Doctor #2
- Michael Bartz as Doctor #3