VeteranLight
I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.
Matialth
Good concept, poorly executed.
Livestonth
I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible
Caryl
It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.
Band_Freak89
I love this movie! I couldn't stop watching it. I wanted to see it to the end with out and interruptions. Rebecca loved her kids so much and her ex-husband made it to where she couldn't remember who she was. Her new husband loves her so much that he was scared that he was going to lose her when she went to find out what happened in her past that gave the scar on her forehead. When she was stopped by a lady and called her Abbie and asked if she got her kids back she had to find out what had happened to her. She went to her old town that the lady told her that she used to live in and remembered some of things that happened to her gradually. The more time she spent their the more she started remembering. This movie just kept getting better and you couldn't predict what would happen next.Just watch and see how great this movie really is! You wont be able to stop watching it!! You will want to keep watching it to see what will happen next!
AnnieLola
I agree that Jane Seymour's now-mature beauty isn't shown to best advantage in this piece, and her distinctive crooked mouth is sometimes allowed to look like an actual distortion. It's agreeable to find that the plot isn't quite predictable, and one really can't help staying with the story to see the mystery solved, and (one hopes) all resolved. What did he do? Why did he do it? It's hard to say whether all questions are answered... I had difficulty with the chronology, since it's mentioned that Abbie married very young-- then one looks at the ages of the children and at Jane and ex-hubby and things don't quite add up, but really, one can just ignore that and go with the premise. It was quite needless, though, that when Abbie/Rebecca and her daughter are having a special moment finding some 'forget-me-nots', the flowers are obviously lobelia. Watch and see!
jotix100
Rebecca Blake, the attractive woman one sees at the beginning of this made for television movie, is having a hard time at her local super market where she collapses after she sees a young child , who obviously is a reminder of someone she knows. One realizes right away this woman has no recollection and no memory of who she is, or where she came from. Rebecca is happily married to Joe, a good man that clearly adores her.When she meets by chance someone on the street who greets her as Abby, she tells the woman she must have made a mistake, but that triggers in her mind a doubt. She goes back to this lady, who tells her how she met her and the area of California she was from. Rebecca pleads with Joe to let her go to unravel the mystery and all the tangled web in her mind.Harry Winer directed this story that supposedly is based on a true story, as most television movies are. The story is greatly helped by the heartfelt performances of the principals. Jane Seymour is Rebecca, the woman who lost her life through no choice of her own. Bruce Davison is Chase, her former husband who is the key player in what happened to Abby/Rebecca. David Keith is the sheriff of the small California town where Abby finds the missing pieces of her past. A. Martinez plays Joe, the new man in Abby's life.The film was totally shot in the town of Fillmore, California, which is the center of the orange growing industry and offers a magnificent setting for the story. Since it's a melodrama, prepare the Kleenex, but the film is worth watching thanks to what director Winer did with this story.
petershelleyau
Executive produced by James Keach, Jane Seymour is Rebecca Vega, a bookstore worker living in San Pedro with construction worker husband Joe (A. Martinez), but she has headaches and nightmares. She meets Lynn Wyman (Cathy Lee Crosby) who knew Rebecca as Abbie Stewart with 3 children - Jenna (Amanda Barfield), Ethan (Colton James) and Lilly (Mika Boorem) - and Rebecca goes to Fillmore County to investigate her past.
Seymour has a gash in her forehead which we later see is from being hit with a fireplace poker, and in her flashback memory her long hair is shoulder length and she wears virginal white. She is actually lit unflatteringly, looking tired and leathery, perhaps partly due to her traumatised state, so when her former husband school principal Chase (Bruce Davison) tells her how beautiful she is, it sounds odd. Seymour provides sobless tears, we see her handwriting, wears a stick in her hair worn up, overdoes a hesitation in opening a buzzed door, and has a campy panic-attack faint in a supermarket.
The teleplay by Lindsay Harrison and Renee Longstreet, based on a true story, has a howler in Rebecca/Abbie to Chase `I've learned a lot from you. School's over.', and Jenna has a good line in sarcasm when she tells her mother to take her locket in case she loses her memory again, but director Harry Winer goes all out with the nightmare/daymare visions - black and white, tilted and subjective camera, whiplash editing, slow motion, stop motion, and lightning flashes, and fire - plus a choir in the music of Mark Snow.