This television film was first broadcast on American television on December 15, 1982. He approaches a very difficult topic very effectively and at the same time sensitively.
Joanne Tilford (Lindsay Wagner) returns to her family after six years in a psychiatric hospital. Her loving husband (Gerald McRaney, known from "Simon & Simon" and "The Neverending Story") suffers from heart problems and wants to gradually reintegrate her into family life. Everyone else - including her two children - reacts violently to Joanne's return. The young woman doesn't know how to react to this rejection. Only gradually does she realize the extent of a terrible family tragedy.
I have fond memories of this television film. When I first saw it on West German television sometime in the 1980s, I was not familiar with the phenomenon of extended suicide.
Good film - important topic!
Joanne Tilford (Lindsay Wagner) returns to her family after six years in a psychiatric hospital. Her loving husband (Gerald McRaney, known from "Simon & Simon" and "The Neverending Story") suffers from heart problems and wants to gradually reintegrate her into family life. Everyone else - including her two children - reacts violently to Joanne's return. The young woman doesn't know how to react to this rejection. Only gradually does she realize the extent of a terrible family tragedy.
I have fond memories of this television film. When I first saw it on West German television sometime in the 1980s, I was not familiar with the phenomenon of extended suicide.
Good film - important topic!
