Jacob Have I Loved (1989 TV Movie)
6/10
Decent Effort That Suffered From One-Hour Format.
20 July 2010
Warning: Spoilers
This film seemed to me a decent effort. Bridget Fonda did well as the resentful sister not aware that she had many fine qualities of her own. The plot suffered from the necessity to cram all the characters and plot lines into 53 minutes. So much of the story line just fell away without resolution.

Something bothered me about the Mr. Rice music teacher character. I knew he was familiar from somewhere. Then it hit me, this was Lonny Price, the smarmy grandson Neil from Dirty Dancing.

The musical score will never win any awards. The cheesy lightning special effects during the storm illustrated how low the budget for this effort really was. Still, I have watched much less entertaining fare with higher budgets.

All in all, this is a film well worth watching.
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