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Dalva

  • TV Movie
  • 19961996
  • 1h 36m
IMDb RATING
4.8/10
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Dalva (1996)
  • Drama
  • Romance
When she was a teenager, a woman got pregnant and wound up giving up the baby up for adoption. Now, 30 years later, she sets out to find her now-grown child.When she was a teenager, a woman got pregnant and wound up giving up the baby up for adoption. Now, 30 years later, she sets out to find her now-grown child.When she was a teenager, a woman got pregnant and wound up giving up the baby up for adoption. Now, 30 years later, she sets out to find her now-grown child.
IMDb RATING
4.8/10
138
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Ken Cameron
  • Writers
    • Jim Harrison(book "Dalva")
    • Judith Paige Mitchell(teleplay)
  • Stars
    • Farrah Fawcett
    • Peter Coyote
    • Rod Steiger
Top credits
  • Director
    • Ken Cameron
  • Writers
    • Jim Harrison(book "Dalva")
    • Judith Paige Mitchell(teleplay)
  • Stars
    • Farrah Fawcett
    • Peter Coyote
    • Rod Steiger
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    • 2User reviews
    • 1Critic review
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    Powers Boothe in Dalva (1996)
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    Farrah Fawcett and Powers Boothe in Dalva (1996)
    Farrah Fawcett in Dalva (1996)

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    Farrah Fawcett
    Farrah Fawcett
    • Dalvaas Dalva…
    Peter Coyote
    Peter Coyote
    • Michaelas Michael…
    Rod Steiger
    Rod Steiger
    • John Wesley Northridge IIas John Wesley Northridge II
    Carroll Baker
    Carroll Baker
    • Naomias Naomi
    Jesse Borrego
    Jesse Borrego
    • Duane Stonehorseas Duane Stonehorse
    Laurel Holloman
    Laurel Holloman
    • Karenas Karen
    Powers Boothe
    Powers Boothe
    • Samas Sam
    Will Marchetti
    Bob Scott
    Joy Carlin
    Shawn Cady
    • Young Dalvaas Young Dalva
    Rufus Norris
    Rufus Norris
    Jace Dillard
    Luis Saguar
    Luis Saguar
    Nicholas B. Guerrero
    Salina Monti
    Chanelle Schaffer
    Gabriel Negrete
    • Director
      • Ken Cameron
    • Writers
      • Jim Harrison(book "Dalva")
      • Judith Paige Mitchell(teleplay)
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    Storyline

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    When Dalva was a teenager, falls in love with Duane and becomes pregnant which later she learns that he is also her half-brother. Her grand-father forces her to give the baby up for adoption. Many years later, Dalva finds Duane and he tells her that he is dying and he rides into the sea in the sunset and shoots himself. Dalva later finds love with a friend of her father's, Sam who encourages her to find her son. She finds her son and the show ends in the arms of her true love Sam.
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    4/10
    High-toned soap with cowboy hats
    Farrah Fawcett plays Dalva, the granddaughter of a rancher in Nebraska--white but with an Indian heritage--who was once discouraged by grandpa in her love affair with the handsome Native-American boy she wanted to marry and whose baby she was carrying (seems gramps neglected to mention when the two kids met that they were half-siblings, something which may have discouraged them from making love in the hayloft!). 30 years after the baby was taken away by adoption authorities, Dalva wants to pick up the threads of her past. Judith Paige Mitchell adapted Jim Harrison's well-regarded book for TV, giving Fawcett another tiresome opportunity (after 1994's "The Substitute Wife") to do her little-girl act (lots of over-the-shoulder glances and coy, trembling smiles). Rod Steiger, Carroll Baker, Peter Coyote and Powers Boothe make up the strong supporting cast, yet the movie has been pieced together by director Ken Cameron into some sort of soggy bucolic valentine, dappled with sunlight and morning dew. Fawcett reads Dalva's journal in voiceover as if the lazy-hazy descriptions of love were poetry, but the whole thing is strenuous and draining. Laurel Holloman, as an outrageous flirt with a shovel-wielding father, livens up the scenario--why wasn't the movie about her?
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    • Release date
      • March 3, 1996 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • La mujer más rica del mundo
    • Production company
      • Goldsmith Entertainment Company
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 36 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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