Sandcastles

I saw this movie with my sister years and years ago. Now I know that it was actually in 1972 because I have just accessed this info on IMDb. This movie has haunted me for many years, but I never could find any reference to it when I either looked online or asked at my local video store. I was beginning to think that I was crazy - or maybe that I had remembered everything wrong! Maybe it wasn't really called Sandcastles and maybe Jan-Michael Vincent did not star in it. I really would like to see this movie again. I remember that it made me weep, it made me hope, and it startled me that something so wonderful could be on television. I never was much of a television watcher, but this movie was not a typical TV movie. I loved it and I can't wait to tell my sister that there are other people who remember and enjoyed that movie as much as we did. Sandcastles defined Jan-Michael Vincent to me. I don't think he ever again looked so good or acted so passionately. Anything that I saw with Jan-Michael Vincent in afterward paled by comparison, but all was forgiven because I knew his potential.

As stated, this film was one of the reasons I am such a movie buff now, I think. I was about 12 or 13 when I first saw it, and I got to see it twice because it was rerun a couple of months after its initial showing, and then that was it. It has resonated for all these years, leaving me with that funny feeling inside that only happens when a movie has really made a powerful impression. I have been looking to see it and have my wife (I won't , however, tell her that this movie also made me develop a crush on Bonnie Bedelia that survives to this day!) see it and have been unable to find a copy, 'til recently, via eBay, where I am hoping to be the winning bidder so I can validate what I have just written. Just writing about it now makes me long to see it again.

This movie held me absolutely spellbound in my youth.

This is one of the best, most under-rated love stories ever made. I've never heard of anyone in real life who's seen this work. Every time I ask is anyone's seen Sandcastles, they always respond with, "You mean Ice Castles, don't you?" LOL-No!

This film was my sole entertainment on a rainy winter Saturday. It held such enchantment that I've never forgotten it. The tenderness exhibited here is the thing of childhood fantasy. The truly sweet encounter shown in this movie was portrayed so well that I believed it was real.

If you're into love stories with a small twist of intrigue; if you liked Ghost, then, check out the movie from which it spawned. Jan Michael Vincent is completely top row (believe it...or not!) in this all but forgotten, Made for TV film.

It earns a 9.4/10 on the "TV" scale, from...

the Fiend :.

I too saw this for the 1st time late one night and it captured me. It was simple and low-budget but the format was almost as if it was live. It took me back in time to a beautiful California that I remember as a young boy. It took me back to my 1st love as a teenager. There is something about it that I can't explain. We passed in the night from a long time ago. The story was simple and the plot wasn't deep but I couldn't break away for a minute. I felt like I was back in time and all I could feel was that I wanted to be there. There was such a goodness to the man who owned Pappa Bears. He gave a great performance and I have a slight memory of him as an Actor. It was definitely 70's and I felt like I was back there for a short time. A time for me that was so much simpler and pure.

I was 23 when I saw Sandcastles in '72, and absolutely loved it. Anytime I hear Sibelius's Finlandia I think of this movie, although for the longest time I couldn't remember the name or cast of the movie, although I could picture the main players. I just heard the music again, and had to search...and I found this site. Now I know that I'm not totally out of my mind. The cast was perfect, as was the music. I knew from the first strains of Finlandia, and watching Bonnie Bedelia's face as she played the violin, that this was going to be a wonderfully romantic movie, and that romance, along with the "mystery", made for an unlikely combination to equal a fantastic movie. Yes, it should be repeated, at least a few more times. Let the younger generations see what a true romance is.