Maybe I'll Come Home In The Spring (UK PAL Region 0)

Great part for Sally Field
One of the greatest telefilms ever made, from an era in which filmmakers were first sensing the possibilities of the form. Sally Field will break your heart as Denny, the young hippie girl who returns to her mom and dad and their ultra-square suburban lifestyle, after a year or so away from home exploring the complicated hippie life with a boyfriend, "Flack" (the young David Carradine). 40s and 50s screen star Eleanor Parker is super as the icy mother; she makes the most out of a difficult role, outdoing Mary Tyler Moore's part in ORDINARY PEOPLE and doing it ten years earlier, when it was a braver career choice. Jackie Cooper is all right as the Dad, but he and Carradine are no match for the female super acting power of Field and Parker.

It's not a big blockbuster sort of picture, but it is one that you'll take to your heart, and I wonder if Sally Field ever really topped her acting work in this movie. By all means get the DVD, and revel in a different time and...

Hits Home
Sally Field really wowed us when this first aired on television as a made-for-TV-movie of the week. It shows what happens to families when parents don't listen and watch what is really happening with their kids. Sally runs away, does drugs, and hangs out with the hippies (in very effective flashbacks). The depiction of thoughts with flashes of images and voice-over was innovative and genuine. The movie opens when she returns home and we (and she) begins to see the same thing begin to happen to her younger sister and she can't stop it. Sally's charactor has learned from her mistake and she tries to warn her sister as well as tries to warn her parents that they are making the same mistakes they did with her. It's a good movie with realistic portrayal of it's time period. I was a kid at the time and I understood it and this film was something that teens of this era were able to relate to. Most important--there is a lesson to be learned. Unfortunately, television...

Superior TV Movie
This made-for-tv movie was filmed at the time when Sally Field was trying to break out of her "Gidget" and "Flying Nun" roles. It is effective at showing what great dramatic work she would do in the future. One drawback about this DVD is it has no special features. Overall, this movie has an absorbing story about the conflict between parents and teenagers. If one can get past the dated '70's feel, it is a film worth watching.

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