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Dormancy

2018-08-24 · 16 min · Not rated

Drama · History

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...

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Directors
Nicholas W. Callais, Luke Becker-Lowe
Production companies
ACID Digital Media Productions
Countries
United States of America
Status
Released
Budget
USD 7

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Pierre-Luc DésiletsPierre-Luc DésiletsJacob Cloutier
Lee GoldbergEmily Cloutier
Blanca VivancosBlanca VivancosMother Ann
Dennis CunninghamDr. Geralds
Jessica RheaultNurse #1
Nicholas W. CallaisDoctor #2
Michael BartzDoctor #3

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