A Memory in My Heart (1999) (TV)

Director:

Harry Winer

Writers (WGA):

Lindsay Harrison (written by) and
Renee Longstreet (written by)

Release Date:

2 March 1999 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot Keywords:

Waitress | Clerk | Cabbie | Cab Driver | Cab

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Jane Seymour	...	Rebecca Vega / Abbie Swenson Stewart
Bruce Davison	...	Chase Stewart
A Martinez	...	Joe Vega
David Keith	...	Matt
Amanda Barfield	...	Jenna Stewart
Colton James	...	Ethan Stewart
Mika Boorem	...	Lily Stewart
Cathy Lee Crosby	...	Lynn Wyman
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Annie Abbott	...	School Secretary
Newell Alexander	...	John Swenson
Jean Carol	...	Waitress
Dyllan Christopher	...	Small Child
Hannah Faith	...	Band Member
Dan Gerrity	...	Customer
Megan Taylor Harvey	...	Jenna at 5
Paul Hayes	...	Cabbie
Jill Kiblinger	...	Mother
William Marquez
Michele Marsh	...	Nell
Tim Rhoze	...	Dr. B. Cooper (as Tim Edward Rhoze)
Casey Sander
Julia Vera
William Ray Watson	...	Motel Clerk
Devon Rose Winer	...	Lisa

Runtime:

Brazil:91 min | Czech Republic:92 min | 120 min (including commercials)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Iceland:12

Filming Locations:

Fillmore, California, USA

Company:

Catfish Productions

Quotes:

Lily: Do you remember this.
[hands her a scarf]
Lily: I,ve been saving it, Jenna told me it was my moms, it was yours.
Rebecca Vega: You've kept it all this time
Lily: Since i was little
Rebecca Vega: Would it be ok if i gave you a hug
[Lily nods]
Rebecca Vega: I would never have stopped loving you Lily, not for a minute

memory restores pain

Executive produced by James Keach, Jane Seymour is Rebecca Vega, a bookstore worker living in San Pedro with construction worker husband Joe (A. Martinez), but she has headaches and nightmares. She meets Lynn Wyman (Cathy Lee Crosby) who knew Rebecca as Abbie Stewart with 3 children - Jenna (Amanda Barfield), Ethan (Colton James) and Lilly (Mika Boorem) - and Rebecca goes to Fillmore County to investigate her past.

Seymour has a gash in her forehead which we later see is from being hit with a fireplace poker, and in her flashback memory her long hair is shoulder length and she wears virginal white. She is actually lit unflatteringly, looking tired and leathery, perhaps partly due to her traumatised state, so when her former husband school principal Chase (Bruce Davison) tells her how beautiful she is, it sounds odd. Seymour provides sobless tears, we see her handwriting, wears a stick in her hair worn up, overdoes a hesitation in opening a buzzed door, and has a campy panic-attack faint in a supermarket.

The teleplay by Lindsay Harrison and Renee Longstreet, based on a true story, has a howler in Rebecca/Abbie to Chase `I've learned a lot from you. School's over.', and Jenna has a good line in sarcasm when she tells her mother to take her locket in case she loses her memory again, but director Harry Winer goes all out with the nightmare/daymare visions - black and white, tilted and subjective camera, whiplash editing, slow motion, stop motion, and lightning flashes, and fire - plus a choir in the music of Mark Snow.