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6.5/10   48 votes
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Writer:
Rita Lakin (writer)
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Release Date:
12 December 1973 (USA) more
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A confused teenager discovers a stack of tapes recorded years earlier by her dying mother. | add synopsis
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A voice from the grave, a mother's love comforts. more (10 total)

Cast

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Bonnie Bedelia ... Janet Thatcher

Martin Sheen ... John Thatcher
Kitty Winn ... Miranda Thatcher
Neva Patterson ... Mrs. Oliver
Mark Slade ... Dave Hanley
Jerry Ayres ... Steve
King Moody ... Frank
Bob Goldstein ... Phil
Lucille Benson ... Woman on Train
John Crawford ... Abortionist
John Lasell ... Doctor
Richard McMurray ... Mr. Oliver
Jan Shutan ... Lorraine

Peg Shirley ... Mother on Train
Della Thomas ... Abortionist's Contact
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74 min
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3 out of 3 people found the following review useful.
A voice from the grave, a mother's love comforts., 17 November 1999
Author: Brigid O Sullivan (wisewebwoman) from Toronto, Canada

This is a movie ahead of its time in its portrayal of a troubled young woman who decides not to have an abortion. In her tapes to her daughter, she is real, angry at times, hostile to her own parents. When I saw it years ago on TV I remember a different soundtrack, a John Denver one, with "sunshine on my shoulder" being the theme. I must have mixed up movies. The movie itself left a lasting impression on me, as my mother had died two years before. I bought it the other day. It is dated and rather choppy now. The daughter's character is not fully explored but the mother's is. A good double hanky number.

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