We were a "ABC Movie of the Week" family. Some of the best stuff on TV. "Duel". "The Immortal". "Longstreet". "Brian's Song". Wild stuff like "A Cold Night's Death", and springboards for TV series. But along the line, there were real clunkers. This was the worst.
Another film where a teen runs away from a nice suburban home, albeit with overbearing parents, but ones that did care about her. It was too "boring". "I want to see the outside world!". Her boyfriend on the outside is a loser played by David Carradine. She has enough of eating hot dogs out of the trash and decides to come home. Her sister wants to copy her moves and try the hippie life herself. In the end, the younger sister runs away, the Sally Field character stays at home. The End.
That's the entire movie, if one could call it that. The entire film is a montage of past and present images, flashbacks, voice overs, shot in the most dreary, grainy style you can imagine. The film image resembles something like a Super 8mm home movie. Interiors are poorly lit, outside scenes are washed out, and the cinematography on the whole is amateurish.
Not much happens in the entire film. Field pulls out an old doll house and stuffed animals and plays with them. There is a ridiculous voice over of Field talking like a much younger girl, and it comes off as a joke. The younger sister is played by Lane Bradbury--you'd recognize her as a pretty girl that made a lot of TV appearance, and has a special talent to wrinkling up her already close to "Resting B!tch Face" into a scowl as she throws a tantrum. The rest of the cast is not bad, but the material they are given is awful.
When the Bradbury character SURPRISE! Runs away at the end, you are hoping maybe she gets run over to at least put some action into this dreary affair. But no, the film tries to "say" something by having the parents go through the exact motions of getting up in the morning as they did at the beginning of the film...by re-using the same footage!!!!
Another film where a teen runs away from a nice suburban home, albeit with overbearing parents, but ones that did care about her. It was too "boring". "I want to see the outside world!". Her boyfriend on the outside is a loser played by David Carradine. She has enough of eating hot dogs out of the trash and decides to come home. Her sister wants to copy her moves and try the hippie life herself. In the end, the younger sister runs away, the Sally Field character stays at home. The End.
That's the entire movie, if one could call it that. The entire film is a montage of past and present images, flashbacks, voice overs, shot in the most dreary, grainy style you can imagine. The film image resembles something like a Super 8mm home movie. Interiors are poorly lit, outside scenes are washed out, and the cinematography on the whole is amateurish.
Not much happens in the entire film. Field pulls out an old doll house and stuffed animals and plays with them. There is a ridiculous voice over of Field talking like a much younger girl, and it comes off as a joke. The younger sister is played by Lane Bradbury--you'd recognize her as a pretty girl that made a lot of TV appearance, and has a special talent to wrinkling up her already close to "Resting B!tch Face" into a scowl as she throws a tantrum. The rest of the cast is not bad, but the material they are given is awful.
When the Bradbury character SURPRISE! Runs away at the end, you are hoping maybe she gets run over to at least put some action into this dreary affair. But no, the film tries to "say" something by having the parents go through the exact motions of getting up in the morning as they did at the beginning of the film...by re-using the same footage!!!!