Silk Hope (1999) (TV)

User Rating:

5.3/10   

Director:

Kevin Dowling

Writers (WGA):

Lawrence Naumoff (book)
Beth Polson (television story)

Release Date:

17 October 1999 (USA)

Genre:

Romance | Drama

Tagline:

"I Used to Be Somebody's Daughter... Who Am I Now?"

Plot:

A fun-loving woman (Farrah Fawcett) returns to the North Carolina farm where she grew up and tries to prevent it from being sold by her sister. |

Plot Keywords:

Based On Book

Cast

Farrah Fawcett	...	Frannie Vaughn
Peggy McCay
Brad Johnson	...	Ruben
Ashley Crow	...	Natalie
Scott Bryce	...	Jake
Herb Mitchell	...	Claude Osteen
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Earl Houston Bullock	...	Announcer (as Earl Bullock)
Mark Lindsay Chapman	...	Ted Bass
Diane Delano	...	Linda
Jerry Hauck	...	Lawyer
Jan Hoag	...	Pig Farmer
James MacPherson	...	Bartender
Stuart Mitchell	...	Minister
Debra Mooney	...	Violet
Bruce Newbold	...	Developer
Jimmy Ray Pickens	...	Red Haired Man
David Ursin	...	Crew Cut Man
Kym Whitley	...	Grace (as Kym E. Whitley)

Runtime:

USA:120 min (including commercials) | Brazil:89 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Polson Company, The

Soundtrack:

Carolina Skies

Inconsistently developed and predictable...but with pleasant moments and a star-turn from La Fawcett

Lawrence Naumoff's book turned into a sketchy, meandering vehicle for star Farrah Fawcett, playing a ne'er-do-well good-time girl who pops into her rural hometown only to find she's missed her beloved mama's funeral and that her sister is planning to sell off the old homestead. She decides to work at the local factory and buy sis out, and catches the eye of the hunky foreman (who looks like a clean-shaven Kris Kristofferson in his youth). Up to this point, the TV-made "Silk Hope" has some drive and a rousing character in Fawcett's Frannie Vaughn, but though the dialogue is smart and has a truthful edge, the plot manages to get all balled up. Frannie is supposed to be flighty and irrational, but how she thinks making pocket change at the factory (or starting a pig farm) will help her win the house back is never explained. When Farrah digs deep as an actress, she's more than capable of bringing out a forthright woman who doesn't take baloney from anybody, but too often here she slips into a little girl act (with a light, tinkly voice); in her quieter moments she's very good, and very attractive (if rail-thin), and she's really the only reason to watch the movie. The bumpy narrative darts about from one half-finished sequence to the next, including the proverbial county fair, the emergency at the factory, a crisis in the family, a hunt for Daddy who's been missing for ages, and Frannie standing up to her bosses at work as if she were Eleanor Roosevelt. It just doesn't wash, but then it probably wasn't meant to be an incisive, dramatic entertainment...just a piece of fluff.