Open House

I'm glad I didn't see this until after I spent a year watching Christine Lahti as Grace on the excellent 'Jack and Bobby' TV series. Lahti shows her talent here too, and if she was better in the series, that's only because there was such excellent writing there. But this was pretty good.

Daniel Baldwin was very appealing as the MIT astrophysics graduate who takes odd jobs--including helping Samantha's husband David move out after he decided to end the marriage--because he wants to enjoy life. Samantha kept encountering him again not just because she needed ways to make money, but because she had the worst luck with men.

Grace Lynn King really shined as the rebellious but likable Lavender Blue, whose parents named her Kimiko. She ended up moving into Samantha's basement to help Samantha pay her mortgage.

Colin Cowie was also quite good as the TV host who Samantha relied on for advice. Also good were Eva Marie Saint as Samantha's mother, Rita Moreno as Lydia, the woman who rented David's former study, and Tom Harvey as Lydia's boyfriend.

This was a pleasant TV-movie, nothing more.

Could of been way better.. But won't pick it apart,well too much. :) If it was presented about a women dealing with divorce & being a mom,that handles as a landlord colorful characters that rent in order to keep her home.

Plus along the way finds love,independence & healing might of been greater.

Just happy.. She didn't lower herself & accept hubby back,just because he decided it was convenient.

It was cast fine & acting also decent enough,just feel as mentioned the storyline/dialog could of been improved.

This movie didn't"exactly"drag,but just needing something more too.

Not sure what else to say but apparently this website,expects you to be overly wordy on all reviewed movies.

Think Bruiser(Moonie)was the pet,used in Legally Blonde movies.

Is this worth seeing? Sure. Passes time on a boring day,but not something in my watch it again category.

Having read the first description on IMDb of this film, I could not believe it referred to the same film as the one which I watched? Yes, the girl (Samantha) was abandoned by her husband (David - NOT King) but she remained in the family home rather than moved to another, as the earlier review mistakenly stated. Then she met 'King' with whom she became romantically involved - with the rest of the film revolving around their gently developing romance. Rita Moreno played the part of a lodger at the home of Samantha as did the young Asian girl 'Lavendar'. Generally the film was quite predictable and although never controversial, it sufficed to entertain in a gentle way. Does Christine Lahti (Samantha) ever play a different role as they all seem so very similar to one another??

The movie starts out with love making going on in the bedroom of Travis Morrow,(Mark Rendall), and his wife, Samantha Morrow,(Christine Lahti) tells her husband, "I Hope it was Good for You, It is always Good for Me" and after looking at the expression on her husbands face, you just simply know what is going to happen next, and maybe you don't. Great acting by Eva Marie Saint,(Veronica Reynolds) who does everything she can to help her daughter realize the pitfalls in married life. Daniel Baldwin,(King) has deep feelings for Samantha and for some reason Samantha just considers him as a good friend and nothing more. The moral in this picture is sex is not everything in a marriage, it sure helps but going off the deep end and creating a big problem for yourself solves nothing.

My daughter and I watched this movie last night and we really enjoyed it. We loved the part of King. Here he was brilliant, and could do whatever he wanted and still make a living and a good one at that. I know it was just a movie, but his apartment was to die for. His acting was the greatest of any of the other Baldwins to date. Wish we could see more of him in the similar kind of movie. He played every woman's dream, it is that some of us are just to dumb to know it. Christine Lahti was okay, she looked way too old for Baldwin. Lavender the teenage girl was great. We liked how she handled the kid when he finally came back home, when he was throwing things around his room. I believe that part of the movie helped them both and it showed other kids with the same problem that they can look at this differently and move on with your life. Eva Marie Saint did well as your pushy mother, but I wouldn't have put her as a man chaser, seems that was all she could talk about. Rita Marino was great, wish we could see more of her, of course it would need to be rated PG-13 are we won't be watching. David the husband, was David who? I can't stand any one that plays those parts, I know that someone has to do it, but I still don't like them.