TAGLINE: A Daughter's Love Can Heal A Father's Heart.

PLOT: A college girl decides to get to know her estranged father before she begins her education, but his life turns out to be nothing that she expected __

STORYLINE: Alison Dodge, a 17-year old raised by her mother, decides on her own to spend her last summer before college getting to know her father Al, who wasn't at all waiting for another eternally yapping, meddling, domestic girl in his quiet, supporting life in Arizona backwater Moonlight Bay, by a lake. After a rocky start, she stays and both are faced with each-other and themselves. —IMDb byKGF Vissers

Awesome Movie! (June 15, 2003 by rach-20): I just got done watching this movie tonight and i must say that this movie was very heart warming. I recommend everybody seeing it.. Its about this girl going to see her father and basically her father is a drunk and she inspires him to speak his own mind, to tell his feelings, which he couldnt do. If this movie was for sale i would buy it in a heart beat. So if you ever see it on t.v or if they ever release it, buy it, cause you wont regret it!

Worth the time if you take the time (Feb 28, 2010 by Hall markMovieBuff): This is one of those easy-going movies that one sits back and lets ooze into one's consciousness. The rest of this review assumes you've already read about the story and have a general idea of the plot. __  I haven't read De Guzman's novel, so I don't know whether to credit him (in creating the teleplay) or director Pillsbury, but what I think is worth observing here is the unusual technique used to abbreviate plot elements which otherwise could be cliché. __To wit, several scenes are reduced to cinematic shorthand and are included, apparently, merely to propel the story and give brief cause for the scene which follows. This leaves the transitions a bit choppy, but what it achieves is that it reserves more space in the time allotted for lengthier interpersonal scenes which make the movie worthwhile for the viewer.

Matheson and Bell come off well as the estranged father and daughter, he for one of his more sensitive roles, and she as a rising star and the future Veronica Mars. Further, I hadn't seen Sean Young on screen for many years; and, here, I liked what I saw. Maturity, methinks, becomes her. The one question I have about the movie, which I missed due to a commercial or something, is what happened to the Asner character, Auggie Sinclair? Did he just split town with no explanation, or what? Who are the king and queen of moonlight bay, you say? Watch it, if you get a chance, and find out.

Nice to watch an "old" Hall mark movie. (Feb. 22, 2021 by leapnet):  I rarely miss a Hall mark movie, it is refreshing to see one that was made before they all became cookie cutters. Hall mark movies used to be an event, something to anticipate. This was one worth the wait. Instead of a predictable romance, a family story with some substance! I'm glad the old ones are recycled.*

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