I only caught about the second half of the movie, but I liked what I saw. I thought it was especially exciting when the mother's planning to kidnap her daughter to get her back home. That's a true mother there.
sharei loved the movie. it's a lot more than "a good drama for church ladies" or whatever that guy said.
i had a friend watch it when i thought she might start acting like charley, and she cried. let me tell you, so did i .
does anyone know where i can get a copy of this movie?
"Are you a politican? Are does lying just run in your family?" Idggie- Fried Green Tomatoes
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Actually, I thought the reviewer was spot-on - A low-rent tv movie with a banal script and hamfisted acting all around("I put an Irish curse on your children and your children's children!" ...what the hell) I didn't, for a second, buy Stamos in the pimp role either. I kept seeing Uncle Jessie and found myself laughing as he delivered his lines. Better casting might have helped here. They probably should have taken a more serious approach with the material instead of half-assing their way towards making the equivalent of a bad lifetime picture. Good message but poorly executed.
shareYou cannot kidnap an adult and it was your typical G rated treatment of an R rated world starring Supermom.
Clark's destiny = Superman, Lex Luthor & Lois Lane.
i did, good believable though stamos is the most sensitive pimp ever
shareIt's engaging, although the criticisms are reasonable. Roxana Zal has (or had, at least, in 1990) a terrific ability to play the "good girl caught up in trouble" role, and this was a good part for her.
The biggest issue I had with the story was when her pimp left his entire business in one place to go with just Charley to another. That was absurd. Aside from that, IMO the rest of the issues were relatively minor ones and forgivable in a "message movie". Still, the cumulative effect of them is that this doesn't come across as realistic; that I cared about Charley was more a function of charisma and awareness that this -- or something like it -- really does happen to real girls than good writing.
Also, FTR, Erika Eleniak is insanely cute here. :-) Also also, it was nice to see Harris Yulin in a sympathetic role for once.
I just saw it, poignant, entertaining film.
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