Double-Stop
Cast & Crew
Gerald Seth Sindell
Jeremiah Sullivan
Mimi Torchin
Anthony Walsh
Patti Fairchild
Billy Kurtz
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Synopsis
Mike Westfall, a cellist with the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, his photographer wife, Katherine, and their son, Pablo, live in the fashionable Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights. To Don Streggor, a fellow musician, his girl friend Susan, a singer, and others at an elegant cocktail party, it seems as if the Westfalls have no problems. Trouble begins to brew when Katherine, who has taken a series of photographs of the ghetto following the previous summer's riots, announces that Pablo will be bussed to a predominantly black school, arguing that he needs to experience the real world. Mike, initially against the move, relents when the first day of school arrives and takes Pablo to the waiting bus. That evening, at the opening of Katherine's photography exhibit, Susan and Don have an argument which upsets Mike so much that he leaves early. The next day Mike secretly follows the schoolbus to school and is horrified by the squalor and violence he sees there. Mike wants to remove Pablo from school, but Katherine insists that he stay. Both Katherine and Susan, who was to sing in the chorus, are absent from that evening's symphony performance. Afterwards Don says that he went to the same school Pablo attends, and he takes Mike to a bar in that neighborhood, where a hostile confrontation erupts between Don and his former acquaintances, who are black. The next day Mike, still unsure about what to do with Pablo, takes him to a rehearsal. As they arrive they notice a crowd gathered in a park across the street, and beyond that stands Don, looking disheveled. Susan has been murdered; her body lies beneath a sheet on the grass. Returning home with Pablo, Mike begins to realize the impossibility of isolating oneself from the harsh realities of life.
Director
Gerald Seth Sindell
Cast
Jeremiah Sullivan
Mimi Torchin
Anthony Walsh
Patti Fairchild
Billy Kurtz
Barry Gordon
Gino Arditto
Crew
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Filmed on location in Cleveland.
