Interesting story, has some elements of "Lone Star", then diverges. Dillon plays a high school boy from an ordinary farming family in 1949 Texas. He and the banker's daughter get sweet on each other but the banker does whatever he can to keep them apart. So they elope to Louisiana while still 17, he gets a job as a pipeline laborer, they are deeply in love, then after 3 months she finds out she is pregnant.
Meanwhile banker dad has hired a two-bit detective to find and bring his daughter back. He catches up with them about the time her new doctor calls her old doctor for medical records, only to find out the banker has apparently fathered both of the young couple, they are half-siblings, that's why he was trying to keep them apart! So the only solution is an abortion. In a silly scene at night, after an illegal back-room procedure leaves young wife bleeding and in serious danger, the two-bit detective tries to run them off the road as Dillon's character tries to get her to a hospital.
Turns out Dillon's mother had lied, and colluded with the nurse to switch blood types of the possible fathers, and Dillon and his young wife were not related after all. Moral -- see what lies of the father and mother can do to the son and daughter.
At the end, young wife recovers, and we see that they will live happily ever after.
Not a great movie, only marginally interesting, shot entirely in the Houston area, bad caricatures of Louisiana folk, but interesting for the young Matt d Dillon.
Meanwhile banker dad has hired a two-bit detective to find and bring his daughter back. He catches up with them about the time her new doctor calls her old doctor for medical records, only to find out the banker has apparently fathered both of the young couple, they are half-siblings, that's why he was trying to keep them apart! So the only solution is an abortion. In a silly scene at night, after an illegal back-room procedure leaves young wife bleeding and in serious danger, the two-bit detective tries to run them off the road as Dillon's character tries to get her to a hospital.
Turns out Dillon's mother had lied, and colluded with the nurse to switch blood types of the possible fathers, and Dillon and his young wife were not related after all. Moral -- see what lies of the father and mother can do to the son and daughter.
At the end, young wife recovers, and we see that they will live happily ever after.
Not a great movie, only marginally interesting, shot entirely in the Houston area, bad caricatures of Louisiana folk, but interesting for the young Matt d Dillon.