Single mom (Sally Field), still hesitantly attracted to her ex-spouse (Brian Kerwin), finds love with an older gentleman (James Garner) in a rural Arizona town. Sally Field radiates so much good will, you like her here even after you realize she doesn't have much of a character to play. Veteran director Martin Ritt has always been exact at finding subtle nuances in backwater towns, yet Ritt is curiously uninspired with this modest, scratchy-and-smooth material; it's a sufficient-enough piece of filmmaking, despite a gratuitous bit from a slasher movie and a horrendously-written tryst in the hay barn. Field (once again caught between two paramours, as with "Kiss Me Goodbye") works nicely with Garner--and if the rest of the film had been as well-crafted as their last scene together, this might have been a more heart-rending picture. It has some ambling charm, but no center--and no driving force. ** from ****