Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Sarah Jessica Parker | ... | Callie Cain | |
Sally Struthers | ... | Patty Pepper | |
Lexi Randall | ... | Jessica Cain | |
Gary Graham | ... | John Birney | |
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Susan Barnes | ... | Donna Evans |
Jayne Atkinson | ... | Wanda Birney | |
John Dennis Johnston | ... | Harlan Pepper | |
Tom Hodges | ... | Ray Jacobs | |
Elizabeth Ashley | ... | Carla Scott | |
Jessica Campbell | ... | Julie Cain | |
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Lacey Guyon | ... | Susan Cain |
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Amanda Laughlin | ... | Cindy Cain (at 5) |
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Molly Laughlin | ... | Cindy Cain (at 3) |
Harry Lennix | ... | Tim Coffey | |
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Sonny Stinnett | ... | Baby Jason Cain |
This story is about the five Cain children whose mother suffers from mental instability. When she is finally committed to an institution, the children are fostered by a childless couple who soon grow to love them as their own. Just as they are settling down to their new lives and enjoying the affection and warmth that they have never had, Callie re-appears in their life and decides she wants them back. The children's lives are in danger of being torn apart as they are caught up in a desperate tug of war between the mother they have learned to fear and the foster parents they have grown to love. Written by mahajanssen
This movie makes me cry everytime. I truly wish the children's court would look beyond "for the best interest of the children" and look from a child's point of view. I know people who were in child protective custodies as children and who have not fully recovered from being shipped from home to home. Some who ended up with messed up lives, and some who came clean. This movie I think was very good. It reminds me alot of the book "Homecomming" which about four children trying to run away from the system and end up living in their grandmother's home, but this movie has a sad ending. If I were the kids, I'd keep on running to that loving home that every child dreams about.