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Forever Love

1998, Movie, NR, 94 mins

Forever Love: Review

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Rushed to the hospital following a stroke, the once incredibly vital Lizzie Brooks (Reba McEntire) lapses into a coma. When she awakes twenty years later, unlike Sleeping Beauty, it's to recriminations and a painful readjustment to married life and motherhood. Helplessly observing her now-grown daughter Emma (Heather Stephens) headed into a bad marriage, Lizzie also resents how close Emma's become to Lizzie's old best friend Gail (Bess Armstrong). As if she didn't already feel extraneous, Lizzie learns that her once loving spouse Alex (Tim Matheson) and Gail have had a long-standing affair. Angry at being babied and devastated by her spouse's infidelity, Lizzie runs away to revisit her childhood haunts, unsure whether she can forgive Alex and Gail, or whether there's a place for her in her daughter's life. Forever scrambling back and forth in time, this freesia-scented romance is the artistic equivalent of a soothing aromatherapy candle. In typical network TV fashion, the script, loosely based on a true story, soft pedals dramatic conflicts that should've been handled with candor, then offers soapy solutions. What's more, it would've taken a flamboyant filmmaker like Pedro Almodovar to do justice to the bizarre subject matter, as he did with LIVE FLESH. As if hemmed in by the script's and director's restraint, the actors acquit themselves with understatement. Everyone except C&W superstar Reba McEntire, that is, who acts up a spring rain — if not an entire storm! Packaged on video with a music video at the end, this TV movie is actually a sales pitch for McEntire's versatility. She does everything well, but not especially memorably. leave a comment --Robert Pardi
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