Review of The Promise

The Promise (1979)
3/10
Nonsensical foolishness
15 May 2013
Warning: Spoilers
Young couple in love, his mother objects. They suffer a horrendous car accident during which her face is destroyed, his mother pays her off with reconstructive surgery. She emerges looking...remarkably similar? He doesn't notice when they met. Uh..right. Gooey nonsense at least has nice San Francisco locations and decent actors working with a silly script.

While Kathleen Quinlan, Stephen Collins and Beatrice Straight are all talented professionals they can only do so much with a story that stretches credibility to the breaking point. This was inexplicably a big hit upon its initial release, romantic films are fine but they should at least have a sensible premise which this most surely does not.
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