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I loved this movie, and really want to see it aired again...I hope it will be in the near future. Rachel Leigh Cook was excellent and it tackled a very difficult subject. I'd love to see it again.

Mediocre movie of the week about a young girl who goes to visit her long lost mother and winds up getting caught in the web of an unstable stranger. This meeting leads to much sorrow for not only the girl but her only other living relative, her grandfather, who winds up in dutch with the state police. Ally Sheedy played, and looked, the part of a burnt out drunk with nothing to live for. Interesting enough story but not very believable and way too corny for my tastes.

I watched this movie at like 4 in the morning and let me tell you... I ended up staying up to watch it while it was on again like four hours later.

I think that everyone in this movie is just so beautifully cast. you have don diamont playing the dark yet handsome older guy who becomes attracted to rachel leigh cook who despite being younger can really hold her own. George C. Scott breaks hearts as the strict but loving grandpa who would do anything to help his granddaughter. Ally Sheedy shows her range by playing distant and often drunk mom.

Let's just say...i would love to own this movie.

This movie was a joyful surprise. Seldom did we see George C Scott in such a tender role. Just goes to prove what a well rounded actor he was; how we shall miss him! What a delight to see a whole town pulling together to help neighbors. How funny to see those rugged truck drivers cradeling that little baby. The expressions on their faces were wonderful to see. I don't know what made me tape it but I am glad I did as I shall watch it again and again (something I seldom do.) I gave it to my neighbor to watch also. Hollywood: we want more movies like this; no sex, no foul language and no nudity. Are you listening????

The premise of Country Justice (also titled Family Rescue) is easy enough to predict, but the second half completely derails and takes you on a wild wide. At the start, young mother Ally Sheedy abandons her daughter so she can live a more reckless and selfish life. She leaves her baby with her father, George C. Scott, and takes off. Fifteen years later, Rachael Leigh Cook is curious about her mother, even though she loves and respects her grandfather. On a whim, she buys a bus ticket and leaves George a note, but when Ally isn't glad to see her, she's very disheartened. Ally's boyfriend, Don Diamont, is very attentive to Rachael - too attentive. So, yes, it's easy to guess what happens next.

Parts of Country Justice have the potential to really affect the audience, but most of it felt like a cheap tv movie - which happened to get George C. Scott to play the lead. I liked him as the steady grandfather who puts his family first no matter the cost, and it was interesting to see Mary Anne from The Babysitter's Club going through such a dramatic ordeal. But much of the plot was very far fetched. You're going to have to really be in the mood for a melodramatic tv flick to get engrossed in this one.

Kiddy Warning: Obviously, you have control over your own children. It doesn't go into detail, but there is a rape scene involving a teenager, so I wouldn't let my kids watch it.