Themes: Lovers Reunited, Love Triangles, Romantic Betrayal
Main Cast: Sissy Spacek, Kevin Kline, Bonnie Bedelia, Jim Standiford
Release Year: 1986
Country: US
Run Time: 90 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG13
Plot
This small-town romance may be trying to ride the coattails of the Big Chill that also featured Kevin Kline. Kline plays Henry here, and when the film opens he and his love Gussie Sawyer (Sissy Spacek, wife of director Jack Fisk), are sitting together planning the future they will have. She will be a flight attendant and he will get a college degree. Yet when they part, so does their destiny. By a quirk of fate, Gussie starts taking photos for an in-flight magazine and ends up an ace photographer while Henry has stayed in their small town to run the newspaper after his dad died. When Gussie comes back for a vacation 15 years later the two old sweethearts find that the embers that burned so low over the last many years are heating up again. No one in the town is unaware of what is going on, and Gussie is in for a lecture from her dad while Henry hears it like it is from his wife. But will that change the course of their relationship? ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
Augusta Dabney - Ethel Sawyer; Kate McGregor-Stewart - Sara Mae; Adrian Sparks - George; Annalee Jefferies - Sally; John Kellogg - Ralph Sawyer; Michael Mack - Ben; Megan Malloly - Kathleen; Erin Malooly - Erin; Douglas Roberts - Lloyd Lynch; Brian Sargis - Squid; Keith Sargis - Bryant; Mike Starr - Toney; Kathleen Fannon - Girl's Mother; Pat McCorkle
Credit
Pat McCorkle - Casting, Joe Tompkins - Costume Designer, Jack Fisk - Director, Edward Warschilka - Editor, Patrick Williams - Composer (Music Score), Mickey Scott - Makeup, Brenda Todd - Makeup, Peter Jamison - Production Designer, Robert W. Welch III - Production Designer, Ralf Bode - Cinematographer, Mikael Salomon - Cinematographer, Marykay Powell - Producer, Roger M. Rothstein - Producer, Jane Bogart - Set Designer, Ken Speed - Special Effects, Naomi Foner - Screenwriter
After fifteen years of traveling around the world, a famous photographer named Gussie (Spacek) returns to the Maryland coastal resort where she grew up. She meets her high school sweetheart Henry (Kline), now married and running the local newspaper he has inherited from his father. Soon after, an awkward and tension-filled romance ensues.
