Two Kinds of Love

Lindsay Wagner and Ricky Schroeder star in this story of a family that must adjust to tragedy. Lindsay Wagner and son Ricky are a close-knit pair, something that is emphasized by the fact that absentee father Peter Weller is seldom around. When Wagner is diagnosed with a terminal illness, Schroeder and Weller must adjust to each other and rebuild their relationship. Schroeder had slid by on cuteness on his TV series SILVER SPOONS; he gets a chance to really shine here as an emotionally devestated teen tramatized by his mother's illness and death. Moving without being exploitative or overdramatic.

Its so hard to look back, it makes you think. I saw this film twenty years ago as a high school student. Three years after he made the classic Walt Disney film The Last Flight Of Noah's Ark, Ricky Schroder made this tv film. It sort of reminds you of Brian's Song. Its a film that makes you cry. He plays a boy who loses the person that he loves more than anyone else in the world. His mother dies of cancer and he and his emotionally distant father have to come to grips with the terrible loss. This is stuff that hits you right in the gut folks. I recently lost a close Gulf War buddy to cancer and I am coping with it. This movie does make you cry but it is very well done. I think its unfair that people remember Lindsay Wagner for her role as the Super Woman in that silly tv show. She is a very fine actress who really delivers in this role as a kind loving mother. Have you ever heard that urban legend about a mother who lifts a car off her child? That story illustrates to us that a mother's love is like no other and that is the kind of role she plays here. Her character is so wonderful and loving that it is unbearable when she dies. This film is based on a juvenile novel and it is one of the few films that I have seen that is almost as good as the book. Ricky really makes us feel his pain and does an outstanding job. I am glad that he and his father made peace at the end, but this is a tough film to watch. Make sure you have a lot of hankies on hand and have a really cheerful film like The Last Flight Of Noah's Ark (which Ricky was also in) that you can watch afterwards to help you recover.

This is a touching drama about a mother, father and a son who are having their good times and bad times. I think the whole cast are excellent and superb. Before and after they portrayed the popular characters that are invovled in the action genre (Peter Weller of Robocop fame) potrays a father whose job is keeping him from spending time with his wife (Lindsay Wagner of The Bionic Woman fame) and son (Ricky Schroder of Silver Spoons and the future N.Y.P.D Blue star). However, there are differences between the father and son and the mother has to cope with the fact of keeping the bond between them. When she's terminally ill the son is still hating his father even more.

After the mother dies, the father and son try to bury the hatchet, settle their differences. I like this movie and actors in it are terrific. I am mad at the fact that it didn't recieve any awards. I give movie an excellent A+.>