I approached this with low expectations. A TV movie with the only two credited names in a brief guide being that of Melissa Gilbert and William Shatner... Gilbert is not a terrible actress (mostly), Shatner is well, I think we know. Thankfully the latter plays a very small part and despite poor pacing the story is enough to keep you watching if you can stay the course. Gilbert needs to know her family medical history to help prevent a premature death, it transpires she was adopted and having traced her 'birth mother' discovers her father was a rapist. Heavy stuff but handled in typical TV movie fashion. The story now turns detective, there are four possible candidates for the rape and Gilbert (happily a researcher) has to discover the right one. Apparently "inspired by a true story" - a catch all phrase that means almost nothing we go through melodrama and very inconsistent performances. This film both annoyed me, but somehow kept me watching.
Review of Family of Strangers
