Deep in My Heart (1999) (TV)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Anita W. Addison

Writer (WGA):

Ronni Kern (written by)

Release Date:

14 February 1999 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A white woman who was raped by a black man gives the baby up for adoption. The film follows the life of the child as she grows up and has children of her own.

Plot Keywords:

Birth Mother | Housewife | Mixed Race | Daughter | Adoption

Awards:

Won Primetime Emmy.

Cast

Anne Bancroft	...	Geraldine 'Gerry' Eileen Cummins
Lynn Whitfield	...	Corrine Burrell
Alice Krige	...	Annalise Jurgenson
Cara Buono	...	Young Gerry Cummins
Gloria Reuben	...	Barbara Ann Williams
Jesse L. Martin	...	Don Williams
Kevin O'Rourke	...	Robert 'Bob' Cummins
Peter MacNeill		(as Peter MacNeil)
Albert Schultz	...	Paul Jurgenson
Jayne Eastwood	...	Mrs. Marsdon
Keenan Macwilliam	...	Young Barbara Ann
Philip Akin	...	Ob-gyn doctor
Brooke Belvedere	...	3-year-old Carol
Kiel Campbell	...	10-year-old Robert
Michael Capellupo	...	Ted Cummins

Runtime:

89 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Australia:PG (DVD rating) | Australia:M

Filming Locations:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Company:

The Königsberg Company

a beautiful experience

A touching telepic, this was perfect for it's original Mother's Day debut. It stars Gloria Reuben (of ER) as woman who grew up in a foster home and now, with her own family life bustling, becomes ever more curious about her biological mother. Flashbacks help the story unfold, from the early '60s where a white woman gives up a black child conceived after a rape. For most of the period that follows, this child lives with a black foster mother (Lynn Whitfield) and grow fond of each other. As a teen, she is adopted by a well meaning but woefully unprepared white liberal (Alice Krige) who gains a black daughter but loses her skittish boyfriend in the process. The young black woman rebels, and eventually runs away, never to return. Now as as she yearns to know the truth and to find her mother, she revisits her foster mother and has a chance encounter with her adoptive mother. Anne Bancroft is superb in a Emmy winning performance as the now aged biological mother. Ruben shines in the lead, and Whitfield and Krige lend fine emotional support. While there are some tear jerking moments in the end, the film itself is more the story of a quest than a simple tearjerker melodrama. Strictly a TV movie, but a very fine one.