**SPOILERS** "Sin and Redemption" is a bit predictable in it's subject matter in that it telegraphs its very unsurprising "suprise ending" almost as soon as you get an idea of where the movie is going.
Teenager Billie Simms, Cynthia Gibb, is looking forward to attend collage but her life gets all messed up when going home from work, form her job as a waitress at a local hamburger joint, Billie is attacked and raped from behind by a shadowy drunk assailant.
Finding out that she's pregnant Billie is told by her very religious minded father Mr. Carl Simms, Ralph Waite, to put the child up for adoption soon after its born. Being a religious and God fearing man an abortion would be unthinkable in Carl's mind.
As Billie is going through the trauma of having her child not only born but given away to a stranger young handsome and very rich Jim McDaniels, Richard Grieco, pops up pleading with Billie to keep the child and even more strange asks her, almost begging Billie, for her hand in marriage! Jim we've already seen, in a violent incident at the hamburger joint, is infatuated with Billie in that he acts as if he's her knight in shining amour beating the cr*p out of anyone who as much as says an unkind word to her.
Against his father's and mother's, Walter Marsh & Conetta Tomei,advice Jim marries Billie and immediately throws away his future in the family business and collage education. On top of all that Jim opts to live with his wife and newborn daughter Katie,Brittany Tiplady at one and Coleen Rannison at five years old, in the poor side of town! Miles away from the expensive and spacious mansion that he lived in with his parents!
Having trouble in paying the bills, he wouldn't think of asking his parents for help, Jim turns into an abusive wife-beating drunk having trouble in both staying away from the bottle and holding down a job. It's when little Katie is diagnosed with a life threatening kidney aliment that Jim is forced to sober up in that*****SPOILER ALERT**** he may be the only person who can save her life!
Touching at times when his not drunk and violent it's aggravating to watch in how poor Billie has to put up with him that makes Jim anything but a sympathetic character. Billie for her part does evoke sympathy but at the same time in her guilt, which was totally unfounded, in being raped comes across as a punching bag who doesn't have the will or ability to just walk out on that abusive jerk of a husband of her's.
The ending a way does get both Billie as well as her father Carl to realize that the illogical guilt on their part, in Billie's being raped and getting pregnant because of it, was what was the cause of all the tragedies that followed it. As for Jim he soon realized, after he found about his daughter Katie's condition, what a mess he not only made of his life but all those he touched, like Billie, in the many hang-ups he had and was not willing, medically as well as psychologically, to have treated.
Teenager Billie Simms, Cynthia Gibb, is looking forward to attend collage but her life gets all messed up when going home from work, form her job as a waitress at a local hamburger joint, Billie is attacked and raped from behind by a shadowy drunk assailant.
Finding out that she's pregnant Billie is told by her very religious minded father Mr. Carl Simms, Ralph Waite, to put the child up for adoption soon after its born. Being a religious and God fearing man an abortion would be unthinkable in Carl's mind.
As Billie is going through the trauma of having her child not only born but given away to a stranger young handsome and very rich Jim McDaniels, Richard Grieco, pops up pleading with Billie to keep the child and even more strange asks her, almost begging Billie, for her hand in marriage! Jim we've already seen, in a violent incident at the hamburger joint, is infatuated with Billie in that he acts as if he's her knight in shining amour beating the cr*p out of anyone who as much as says an unkind word to her.
Against his father's and mother's, Walter Marsh & Conetta Tomei,advice Jim marries Billie and immediately throws away his future in the family business and collage education. On top of all that Jim opts to live with his wife and newborn daughter Katie,Brittany Tiplady at one and Coleen Rannison at five years old, in the poor side of town! Miles away from the expensive and spacious mansion that he lived in with his parents!
Having trouble in paying the bills, he wouldn't think of asking his parents for help, Jim turns into an abusive wife-beating drunk having trouble in both staying away from the bottle and holding down a job. It's when little Katie is diagnosed with a life threatening kidney aliment that Jim is forced to sober up in that*****SPOILER ALERT**** he may be the only person who can save her life!
Touching at times when his not drunk and violent it's aggravating to watch in how poor Billie has to put up with him that makes Jim anything but a sympathetic character. Billie for her part does evoke sympathy but at the same time in her guilt, which was totally unfounded, in being raped comes across as a punching bag who doesn't have the will or ability to just walk out on that abusive jerk of a husband of her's.
The ending a way does get both Billie as well as her father Carl to realize that the illogical guilt on their part, in Billie's being raped and getting pregnant because of it, was what was the cause of all the tragedies that followed it. As for Jim he soon realized, after he found about his daughter Katie's condition, what a mess he not only made of his life but all those he touched, like Billie, in the many hang-ups he had and was not willing, medically as well as psychologically, to have treated.