Lantern Hill (film)

Sullivan Entertainment

year old Jane Stuart Mairon Bennett has long been told by her Grandmother Kennedy Zoe Caldwell that her father is dead. But when her mother, Robin Stuart Patricia Phillips returns home after recovering from a long illness, Jane learns that her mysterious father, Andrew Stuart Sam Waterston is still alive. When Jane finally meets her father and travels with him to Prince Edward Island to stay at Lantern Hill, their family home, she discovers that he is a kind man that cares deeply for both her and her mother. Determined to bring her parents back together, Jane enlists the aid of Hepzibah Colleen Dewhurst, a powerful mystic, to help her solve an old mystery that has torn apart her family. In a subplot, Jody Turner Sarah Polley is an abused servant girl who lives next door to Jane. They become best friends. Jody follows Jane on her journey and winds up working hard labor for several different people. Jane and Hepziba convince Hepzibas sisters to adopt Jody, which they oppose to at first because they want a boy. But later on they agree to adopt Jody Its inferred that Hepziba somehow made them change their minds. Later on, Hepziba dies with Jane and Jody by her side.

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