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16 January 1996 (USA) morePlot:
Flashbacks in the early part of this fact-based film set in McKinney, Texas, establishes that three sisters were mistreated by an abusive step-mother... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Rutinary Telefilm moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Delta Burke | ... | Debra |
 | Swoosie Kurtz | ... | Kay |
 | Shirley Knight | ... | Jolene Maggart |
 | Grace Zabriskie | ... | Francie Harper |
| Lawrence Monoson | ... | Randy Goodson |
| Casey Biggs | ... | Travis Colton |
| Alexa Vega | ... | Young Kay |
| Jane E. Goold | ||
| Bill McKinney | ... | Butch Maggart |
| Steve Shearer | ... | Woody |
 | Morgana Shaw | ... | Young Jolene |
| David Denney | ... | Timmy |
 | Melanie Haynes | ... | Aunt Letty |
 | Madylin Sweeten | ... | Young Debra |
| Allison Ritter | ... | Carolyn |
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Whereas separately Delta Burke and Swoosie Kurtz play their parts reasonably well, they are as unlikely a pair of `sisters' you could imagine. Put together and considered as a whole directed by an imaginitive but lacklustre Jerry London, the sum of the parts would seem to exaggerate the worth of the whole. Certainly we must contend with a number of overacted scenes by both `sisters' as well as the step-mother of today and of forty years ago in flashbacks. Curiously it is precisely in the flashbacks to 1955 that provide the film with its best moments: the three little sisters were delightful, except obviously in the scenes of the step-mother thrashing out violence………. Scenes which were not too successfully handled. The story adheres too strongly to pre-established formulas such that the outcome is never in doubt, offers no surprise, simply another traditional rutinary telefilm trying too hard to evoke sympathies. I can only give this film 5 out of 10, I'll make it 5½ if you push me.