A hymn to indomitable motherhood, in the form of a missing-persons search for a six-year-old boy who sets out for school one morning and never gets there. It has much in common with slick women's-magazine fiction, particularly in the unconditional benediction it gives to the heroine, even when she is calling her best friend "illiterate" (the height of brutality, coming from a Columbia University professor of English). The desire to be at all times sensitive produces moments of truth and moments of fabrication in roughly equal supply. And with all that attention to sensitivity, the narrative pace remains stuck in one gear: low -- at least until the soaring finale. With Kate Nelligan, Judd Hirsch, David Dukes, and Stockard Channing; directed by Stanley R. Jaffe. (1983) — Duncan Shepherd
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