An over-the-moon ode to Mother Love. A six-year-old girl, having lost her father on a Mayan pyramid, withdraws into her own little world, expressing herself through the plain-as-day symbol of a ceiling-high house of cards. Her mother, the to-hell-with-dieting Kathleen Turner, resists the diagnosis of "classic autistic features" put forth by the oddly cast Tommy Lee Jones, and resolves to "enter" the daughter's world and "bring her out." This entails a reconstruction of the card-house on the VDT (with some virtual-reality computer graphics) and then the construction of a water-tower-sized facsimile of it out in back. Not a very practical solution, but a bombastically romantic one. With Asha Menina and Shiloh Strong; written and directed by Michael Lessac. (1993) — Duncan Shepherd
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