To this film viewer, the title of a movie or TV show is very important, and when it is very generic or basic, it takes a lot to get me to be interested in it. The last name of a fictional family doesn't really tell me anything to make them special. Obviously there's nothing in this film to make it worthy of a TV drama series, and having just ended 12 years on a TV sitcom where he was barely on the set, Fred MacMurray simply just walks through the paces as a patriarch of a wealthy family in Coronado dealing with tragedy that occurs after a family celebration.
He looks much older than wife Kathleen MacGuire, and he's surrounded by a generic cast of Hollywood good-looking types that don't really offer anything to make this more than your standard TV drama. Yes, there's tragedy in the family involving the death of the only son, and that certainly is tear jerking drama in the way that it is played out. There's also a subplot that isn't really well-developed involving the one single daughter who is in love with an Asian man and facing issues concerning his family's objection to a possible marriage.
The film has a very conservative viewpoint and that doesn't really give many of the characters any color outside of a few of the younger ones. That makes it a little boring when there is really nothing going on, and MacMurray doesn't seem to be playing anybody but himself. You could get more detail about family drama through the daytime soaps so the idea of this as a continuing nighttime series just doesn't seem to be appealing. As their world turns, I'll stay away from the days of their lives.
He looks much older than wife Kathleen MacGuire, and he's surrounded by a generic cast of Hollywood good-looking types that don't really offer anything to make this more than your standard TV drama. Yes, there's tragedy in the family involving the death of the only son, and that certainly is tear jerking drama in the way that it is played out. There's also a subplot that isn't really well-developed involving the one single daughter who is in love with an Asian man and facing issues concerning his family's objection to a possible marriage.
The film has a very conservative viewpoint and that doesn't really give many of the characters any color outside of a few of the younger ones. That makes it a little boring when there is really nothing going on, and MacMurray doesn't seem to be playing anybody but himself. You could get more detail about family drama through the daytime soaps so the idea of this as a continuing nighttime series just doesn't seem to be appealing. As their world turns, I'll stay away from the days of their lives.