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While I Was Gone
58%
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2h 0m
AI Analysis
While I Was Gone (2004) — AI movie analysis
WatchMind AI generated this AI analysis of While I Was Gone (2004) — a movie tagged as Drama with balanced tone moods and steady pacing.
Story & themes: Jo Beckett leads a comfortable life with a successful veterinary practice, a devoted husband, and a beautiful home in a lovely small town outside of Boston. Still, she is strangely dissatisfied with her life. One afternoon, a man brings his dog into her veterinary practice to be treated, and Jo recognizes him as Eli… Our models also surface themes such as identity, conflict, and relationships from synopsis and genre signals.
Watch context: Best suited for general audiences. Expect steady storytelling (~120 min).
Community signal: TMDb members rate While I Was Gone 58% (5 votes) — mixed but watchable scores for this movie.
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Synopsis
Jo Beckett leads a comfortable life with a successful veterinary practice, a devoted husband, and a beautiful home in a lovely small town outside of Boston. Still, she is strangely dissatisfied with her life. One afternoon, a man brings his dog into her veterinary practice to be treated, and Jo recognizes him as Eli, a former housemate from her bohemian days more than 20 years ago. When he invites her to lunch at a fancy hotel in Boston, she goes with the intention of sleeping with him. Instead, Eli reveals a secret to Jo that returns her to the darkest moments of her past and threatens to destroy life as she knows it.
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- Movie
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- 2004-10-10
- Runtime
- 2h 0m
- TMDB rating
- 5.8
- TMDB ID
- 280818
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What is While I Was Gone about?
Jo Beckett leads a comfortable life with a successful veterinary practice, a devoted husband, and a beautiful home in a lovely small town outside of Boston. Still, she is strangely dissatisfied wit... This is the official synopsis available via TMDb community metadata.
Is there an AI analysis for While I Was Gone?
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How long is the movie While I Was Gone?
The official runtime for While I Was Gone is approximately 120 minutes.
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Cast
Kirstie Alley
Jo Beckett
Bill Smitrovich
Daniel Beckett
Janaya Stephens
Cass Beckett
Peter Horton
Eli Mayhew
Deborah Odell
Sylvia Mayhew
Sandra Caldwell
Betty
- R
Rebecca Benson
Young Jo Beckett
- J
Jeff Topping
Young Eli Mayhew
Kim Poirier
Dana Jablonski
Ryan Kennedy
Duncan
- A
Adam Smoluk
Larry
Tyler Hynes
Malky McDowell
- R
River Ferreira
Jesus Martinez
- K
Kevin Williams
Byron Hall
Shauna MacDonald
Detective Geary
Bill Lake
Sergeant Eberhart
Brooke Palsson
Jo Beckett's Daughter (uncredited)
- J
Jordan Fines
Vet Tech (uncredited)
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