Spring Night, Summer Night

Plot

Carl and Jessie are half siblings who feel trapped by the existential and economic pressures of living in the small mining town of Canaan, Ohio. Their shared rebellion soon takes on the form of an illicit love affair depicted in interwoven sequences of lusty poeticism and ethnographic vérité. When Jessie becomes pregnant, the tension between the couple’s youthful vitality and the dire realities of rural society leads to consequences both despairing and hopeful.

Cast

Larue Hall

Jessie

Ted Heimerdinger

Carl

Marjorie Johnson

Mae

John Crawford

Virgil

Betty Ann Parady

Donna

Mary Cass

Rose

Ron Parady

Tom

Bob Jones

Jacob

David Ayres

Lou

Jon Webb

Frank

Miles Gibbons

George

Art Stifel

Howard

Tracy Smith

Chris

Isabel Stott

Grandma

Michael Marcum

Mike