Yesterday's Children (2000)

Jenny Cole lives with her husband and son in middle America. She is pregnant and starts to have very vivid dreams about a small city that has a big church. She then starts talking to her ... See full summary »

Director:

Marcus Cole

Writers:

Jenny Cockell (book), Sarah Bird,

Stars:

Jane Seymour, Clancy Brown, Kyle Howard

Won 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Jane Seymour	...	Jenny Cole / Mary Sutton
Clancy Brown	...	Doug Cole
Kyle Howard	...	Kevin Cole
Denis Conway	...	Father Kelly
Eoin McCarthy	...	John Sutton
Cillian Caffrey	...	Young Sonny
Stanley Anderson	...	Dr. Christopher Garrison
Claire Bloom	...	Maggie
Hume Cronyn	...	old Sonny Sutton
Peadar Lamb	...	Arthur McSweeney
Conor Evans	...	Thomas Layden
Angus MacInnes	...	Sam Casey (as Angus Mac Innes)
Frances Burke	...	Elizabeth Sutton
Paul Kennedy	...	Irish Doctor
Eric Weitz	...	Martin Green

Storyline

Jenny Cole lives with her husband and son in middle America. She is pregnant and starts to have very vivid dreams about a small city that has a big church. She then starts talking to her mother about it and her mother shows her some drawings she made when she was a child. To her amazement they are identical to the drawings from her dreams that she is now having. Jenny and her mother do research and find that the dreams are about a small town in Ireland in the 1930s. The mother gives Jenny, her son and her husband tickets to go to Ireland, so that she can find out about her dreams. Had Jenny lived in the past after all as Mary Sutton?

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Plot Keywords:

family tree | memory | rabbit | female protagonist | loveless marriage | 

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Taglines:

Are they dreams... or memories?

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

15 October 2000 (USA)

Also Known As:

Il richiamo del passato

Filming Locations:

Greystones, County Wicklow, Ireland

Company Credits

Production Co:

Cosgrove/Meurer Productions, World International Network (WIN)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

93 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

User Reviews

A truly fascinating story

What an incredible story. This is an excellent TV Movie inspired by a true story.

Two ladies, different times, lifestyles apart, but on the same extraordinary and quite inexplicable wavelength.

This does have some quite harsh and brutal domestic scenes which really make you feel for the main character.

A truly fascinating and very emotional tale. Jane Seymour is terrific and I highly recommend you take a look at this one.