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Cupid & Cate

2000, Movie, NR, 98 mins

Cupid & Cate: Review

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Based on Christina Bartolomeo's popular novel, Brent Shields' sensitively acted network-TV movie upholds the Hallmark Hall of Fame’s standards of dramatic tastefulness. Unlike her successful, easy-going sisters, Cate De Angelo (Mary-Louise Parker) has never made peace with their overbearing father, Dominic (Philip Bosco). Her younger sister Cynthia (Joanna Going) is a glamorous model adored by her dad. Older sibling Francesca (Bebe Neuwirth) is a successful doctor and third sister Annette (Rebecca Luker) is happily married. Cate’s siblings deal with their dad's short temper by not confronting him, while moody Cate blames Dominic for exacerbating her late mother’s alcoholism. That jaundiced perception colors Cate’s work ethic — she flits from career to career in Washington D.C. — and her relationships with men. Now running a vintage clothing Business with little flair or confidence, Cate has settled for a stuffy fiance, Philip (David Lansbury), who doesn’t "get her." Cynthia pays a whirlwind visit to Georgetown, during which she jazzes up Cate’s business and fixes up her sister with handsome attorney Harry Dietrich (Peter Gallagher). Cate's subsequent broken fuels Dominic's conviction that Cate is a flake. When Cate learns that Harry has leukemia, she takes the risk and marries him anyway. After she gives birth to their son, Cate finds herself resenting her father's efforts to act like a loving grandfather. In order to mend their relationship, Cate and Dominic must pay a painful visit to their mutual past. This family meldrama would feel less contrived if Bartolomeo and screenwriter Ron Raley had focused on the father-daughter conflict and jettisoned the subplot about Harry's terminal illness. But the strong cast manages to find truth in the carpe diem truisms, despite the Job-like travails visited upon their characters. leave a comment --Robert Pardi
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