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I was happy to find I could buy a DVD because I loved this movie back when it aired, It comes off as a made for TV movie. Not extremely polished or the best dialogue. But the drama of the movie was there, it was tense and there was good chemistry between Jimmy Smits and Judith Light. If I saw it for the first time today I might rate it lower but there is a nostalgia involved for me.

This is a good movie in the sense that it has a pace that often keeps the viewer fascinated. It has its own moments and the director has been able to deliver a pulse pounding tale.

I've been married to her for 20 years now, and she just now, casually informs me that she thinks her feet might be in a movie, but she's not sure. I ask her if its a Quentin Tarantino movie, because if it is, her feet are definitely in the movie. She says its not a Tarantino movie, but it had that lady from "Who's the Boss". She is quite fuzzy on the details and doesn't even know the name of the movie; other than it was made for tv. So we look up Who's the Boss, and its Judith Light that my wife was referring to. After playing 20 questions, my wife reveals that she had been downtown Seattle outside of the Frederick & Nelson department store and she was asked if she wanted to wait to cross through the movie shoot during filming; and so she waited and got to walk past Judith, who smiled at her, while cameras rolled. She thought this was in 1987 and sure enough THIS movie is made for TV, starring Judith Light, in Seattle, with a street scene outside of Fredrick & Nelson in 1987.

However!

During the "alleged" scene, my wife is nowhere to be found. Not one single foot, pant leg, nothing. (She said the cameras were angled down as if filming the feet.) So I have no other choice but to assume her feet too ugly to be in this movie; OR SHE IS A LYING LIAR WHO LIES.

She is cracking up right now.

I've come to the conclusion that movies either grab you or they don't and oftentimes it's because of experiences you've had in your own life. I was an unwed mother at one point in my life, so I have great affection for the idea of some wonderful man coming along to love you even though you're big as a house.

This movie used to air on Lifetime all the time... and then it vanished. I waited for years for it to show up somewhere so I could tape it, but it just never did. So this year when I thought about it, I located it on Half.com and bought it for about $7, S&H included. I watched it with a friend, we both enjoyed it. What more can you ask of a movie? Yes, I know that it won't grab most viewers, but since it keys into one of my personal unfulfilled longings, works for me!

Decent suspenseful story, although it has been done before, that was ruined when the action stopped. Most of the person to person dialogue had absolutely nothing to do with the story and was pure filler. Jimmy Smits looked almost embarrassed to be there. Would only recommend during a blizzard when nothing else is on.