Follow the Stars Home

• Director: Dick Lowry
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• Genre: Drama
• Movie Type: Romantic Drama, Melodrama
• Themes: Unrequited Love, Living With Disability, Sibling Relationships
• Release Year: 2001
• Country: US
• Run Time: 98 minutes

Plot

A woman gets a crash course in the realities of love and commitment when she gets some startling news about the child she's carrying in this made-for-TV adaptation of the novel by Luanne Rice. Dianne Parker (Kimberly Williams) is a lovely young woman who is engaged to marry Mark McCune (Eric Close), a successful and self-confident young businessman. Dianne isn't aware that Mark's brother, pediatrician David McCune (Campbell Scott), has also fallen in love with her, but David can't bring himself to break up his brother's relationship. After Dianne and Mark wed, she becomes pregnant, but routine tests reveal that the child will suffer severe genetic defects. Mark decides having an disabled child is not something he can bear and he leaves Dianne. Dianne decides to keep the baby and raise it on her own. She gets valuable help from her mother, Hannah (Blair Brown), but David also pitches in to help raise Dianne's child, and soon Dianne gets a greater appreciation of what love is truly all about as she struggles with David to care for her baby. Produced for the award-winning anthology series "The Hallmark Hall of Fame," Follow the Stars Home first aired on May 6, 2001. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Cast

Blair Brown - Hannah Parker; Roxanne Hart - Tess; Tim Ransom - Buddy; Campbell Scott - David McCune; Kimberly Williams - Diane Parker-McCune; Eric Close - Mark McCune; Alexa Vega - Amy; Octavia L. Spencer - Hilda; Amanda Fein - Julia Parker-McCune; Caitlin Fein - Julia Parker-McCune

Credit

Stephanie Ziemer - Art Director, Dick Lowry - Director, Tod Feuerman - Editor, Richard Welsh - Executive Producer, Mark Adler - Composer (Music Score), Chester Kaczenski - Production Designer, Steven Fierberg - Cinematographer, Brent Shields - Producer, Sally Robinson - Screenwriter, Luanne Rice - Book Author