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.
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| Farrah Fawcett | ... | Dalva Northridge | |
| Peter Coyote | ... | Michael | |
| Rod Steiger | ... | John Wesley Northridge II | |
| Carroll Baker | ... | Naomi | |
| Jesse Borrego | ... | Duane Stonehorse | |
| Laurel Holloman | ... | Karen | |
| Powers Boothe | ... | Sam | |
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Will Marchetti | ||
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Bob Scott | ||
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Joy Carlin | ||
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Shawn Cady | ... | Young Dalva |
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Jace Dillard | ||
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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.
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3 March 1996 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Dalva is the granddaughter of a rancher in Nebraska, white but with an Indian heritage, who is discouraged by grandpa in her love affair with the handsome Native-American boy she wants to marry and whose child she carries. Seems gramps neglected to mention when the two kids first met that they were half-siblings (that might 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. TV-made adaptation of the well-regarded book by Jim Harrison is filled with acting talent (Farrah Fawcett in the lead, Rod Steiger, Carroll Baker, Peter Coyote and Powers Boothe in support), but is pieced together by director Ken Cameron into some sort of soggy bucolic valentine, dappled with sunlight and morning dew. Fawcett is still doing the little-girl act she began with 1994's "The Substitute Wife", only worse (lots of over-the-shoulder, fawn-like glances and coy, trembling smiles). Fawcett reads Dalva's journal in voice-over 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?