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Three stories are interwoven together and gradually converge on Mother’s Day, but each takes place in a different time (which may be a little confusing at first if you don’t notice the year each story begins).
Mark (Kip Pardue) is camping out on a North Carolina beach, claiming that he’s just there to watch the turtles come to nest, but he seems to be running from his past. A local motel manager, George (Michael Kelly) befriends him and they slowly go from being friends to lovers.
Elizabeth (Tess Harper) is a preacher’s wife. She and her husband Robert (Chris Sarandon) are rather intolerant when it comes to their new neighbors, two men with their son. Elizabeth struggles with her reaction to the couple and you learn that she has a deeper reason for this turmoil. Elizabeth has issues with another neighbor, Ruth (Ann Owens Pierce), but it’s Ruth who helps her come to grips with her true feelings.
Grace (Bonnie Hunt) gave her son up for adoption when she was 17, because her mother said it was the right thing to do. Grace has been searching for him ever since, looking at every young man she meets and wondering if he’s the one. She hires Rachel (Robin Weigert), a specialist in the field of tracking down adoptees, because she desperately needs to know the truth.
The stories unfold at about the speed of a turtle slowing crawling across the sand, but eventually you get the whole picture and it becomes a moving story of love and redemption with fine performances from all the principles.
Our one complaint, when you have a hottie like Kip Pardue, it’s a shame that you only have two scenes where he’s shirtless. Okay, it’s not that kind of movie, but it still would have been a nice Mother’s Day present for all the Mrs. Robinson’s out there.
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