All the Kind Strangers (1974 TV Movie)
Good Idea, Lousy Execution
4 March 2004
Yes, it was nifty to think of backwoods children abducting strangers to be their parents, but the plot took the entire length of the film to focus on this plot. Nothing else happened.

The ending was peculiar, definitely.

The only fun part was when Samantha Eggar wrote in the flour on the cutting board. This was the only event to drive any kind of direction in the story.

After that, it was "is it?" or "Isn't it?", over and over and over again.

The lousiest was Benson tipping over the boat.

I watched this as a late movie, before VCRs, and it was murder when it was over around midnight and I thought I could have been asleep by now.

The movie almost did that for me anyway.
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