Lembranças da Meia-Noite

It's not as bad as it looks. On the contrary, it's a great story, there is nothing wrong with its screening and direction, and I can't see why so many fail to appreciate it for what it is. It's a regular Greek tragedy, and the wife of Omar Sharif is the centre of the drama - her exit is simply magnificent, and is followed by the intricate scheming of Theodore Bikel, who plays an important part as the final nemesis - when he first gets disposed of it provides an interesting question mark, since his death is never followed up, but then this story is a series of deaths that inevitably fail and turn up again as ghosts too much alive. Omar Sharif, who happened to die today at 83, makes an excellent performance all the way, he is actually the star, while Jane Seymour, beautiful as always, accompanies him excellently - no one brings the show down. It's a wholly Greek story of rivalry between dominant ship builders, great fortunes are at stake and are gambled and wasted, and love gets caught in between and is sacrificed, while it turns the other way by a surprising twist of fate. A much underrated film and story, also the music is very satisfactory and excellent accompaniment all the way, so it definitely deserves better appraisal. Better than most of the Bond movies of the time.

If you're a big fan of Sidney Sheldon's The Otherside of Midnight, both the book and the movie version, try avoiding this mini.

Jane Seymour is now starring in the role originally played by Susan Sarandon. Nothing can saved this disastrous sequel from anything. Seymour's overacting is the main reason of this stinker. Her facial expression is all the same all throughout the film. She probably holds the record of starring in so many miniseries but she also holds the record of appearing in so many miniseries stinkers in the history of Nielsen ratings!

Avoid this at all cost!

Jane seymour, omar sharif in another sidney sheldon, larger than life drama. Catherine has been recovering in a convent. But she has amnesia, and doesn't remember anything from the actual accident that caused it! She has horrible nightmares; is someone out to harm her? What has she... or someone else...done? The priest knows. But because of his vows, he cannot tell. Keep an eye out for steve sand. He was the record producer in can't stop the music. Pretty small role in this one. Theodore bikel... always played the russian dissodant. Very small role here. Same for ken howard. The original production was three hours, over two episodes. But now it's reduced to 95 minutes, so clearly, we're missing much of the original story. It's pretty good, although we'll never know what we missed from the three hour film. Not much chemistry between the actors. Directed by gary nelson. Seymour had already been in live and let die, and would go on to much bigger things.

First off it does help to understand the story if you know this is the sequel to: "The Other Side of Midnight", so the characters of Noel, Larry, Demirious, and Cathy all were in TOSOM, one different is while TOSOM (both book and film) takes place before during and after WWII and MOM the book takes place right after TOSOM, MOM the Mini takes place in the modern age.

Poor Jane must have gotten a neck pain having to look up at Ken Howard.

One thing I hated is what Melina did to herself to frame her husband, (For those who haven't seen MOM, I won't say what it was)

Our Greek friend is a first class baddie (Played by Omar Shariff), more so than Raf Vilone who played him in TOSOM.

Paul Sand is first class as the office odd ball.

Very good. I am sure the book is better, but this is nevertheless a well made thriller, with nice international implications, almost 'Ludlum-like'. If you do not notice that most of the movie was filmed in Croatia (then Yugoslavia) and that most of the 'Greeks' are actually Yugoslav actors (with their distinctly Slavic accents when speaking English), you will find this to be a rather involving movie, one that provides for some very decent entertainment. For 'connoisseurs' of Greece, this looks very much like the Onassis - Livanos story of the 70's, but then again, this may just be my imagination... The acting is very good throughout, especially the always egregious Omar Sharif (who basically plays himself) and also Jayne Seymour is also quite good (apart from being gorgeous as usual). They don't make them like this any more. Highly recommended.