A Piece of Eden
A Piece of Eden is a 2000 film directed by John D. Hancock. It was filmed at Hancock's home and apple orchard in La Porte, Indiana. His wife wrote the screenplay. The film had a limited release in theaters before being released on video. The film received a range of negative to positive reviews. It stars Marc Grapey, Rebecca Harrell, and Robert Breuler. Plot summary After his father is severely burned in Indiana, television publicist Bob Tredici leaves New York to return to his father's home and decides to live there until his father, Franco, recovers. Other reasons compelling him to stay are a lack of success in his New York business, and his cousin, Greg, being expected to inherit the family's apple orchard. Tredici comes to realize that he enjoys farming and comes to want to own the apple orchard himself, making him envious of Greg. While Franco lies in a hospital bed in his own living room, Tredici modernizes the family's orchard business by setting up a computer at his father's home and using modern marketing techniques. He asks Happy, his secretary from New York, to visit the farm and pretend to be his wife so that his