This is the type of Capra-corn script that the veteran director would have used to start the fire to roast marshmallows. I found the characters preposterous and one note, the town pretty but bland and the plotline messy and unbelievable. Crystal Bernard plays a single mother who seemingly abandons her baby, only to turn up in town as its nanny, getting a job with its adopted mother, spinster schoolteacher Grace Zabriskie.
Every character in this five o'clock town has some sort of corny quirk, from "Doc Betty" (Cloris Leachman) to bad joke telling storekeeper Gary Grubbs, and the soap opera story with young Graham Sack and his wandering father (John Terry) quickly becomes sappy and cloying. Sentiment works when it has elements of realism, and I never bought what this country peddler script was trying to sell me.
Every character in this five o'clock town has some sort of corny quirk, from "Doc Betty" (Cloris Leachman) to bad joke telling storekeeper Gary Grubbs, and the soap opera story with young Graham Sack and his wandering father (John Terry) quickly becomes sappy and cloying. Sentiment works when it has elements of realism, and I never bought what this country peddler script was trying to sell me.
