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After their father's death, a woman spends time with her developmentally-disabled sister.After their father's death, a woman spends time with her developmentally-disabled sister.After their father's death, a woman spends time with her developmentally-disabled sister.
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- TriviaGarth Brooks wrote a song called "Let the Conversation Begin" for the film, but insisted that Chris Gaines be paid separately for recording the song. Hallmark refused, and Studio G backed out.
- GoofsWhen Beth and Rachel are grocery shopping, there are cans of soda in the shopping cart; in the next scene Rachel loads groceries into her trunk and there are no soda cans in the car and none were put in the trunk before Rachel shut it and got into the car.
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Beth Simon: Toilet seat assistance in row number one, thank you!
- ConnectionsEdited into Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)
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O'Donnell Redefines the term "bad actress"
This was basically your standard Lifetime network kind of drama, with one, horrid exception: Rosie O'Donnell. I hear she produced this movie, which I suppose is the best explanation for why no one on the production acted to remove her for another more qualfied actress.
Evidently Rosie subscribes to the "worst stereotypes of mentally handicapped persons" school of acting. She balls up her fists and hold them close to my chest, like some gigantic flightless bird. She juts her lower chin out, her face frozen with about as much depth of feeling as an extra in a George Romero "Living Dead" movie...and her voice. It is not an exaggeration to say, if it were used against Iraqi prisoners, it would be at the top of the Human Rights violations list. This combination croak / screech - Gilford Godfrey, part Pee-Wee Herman, and part "Which Way Did He Go, George?" - is in fact a talent; neither my wife nor I could actually reproduce this noise she was making. Mentally challenged folk do not look like this, do not talk like this. Her performance insults them.
She is an insult to acting. Watching 10 seconds of her insulted my intelligence as well as assaulted my senses. The actors who worked with her should have their therapy bills covered by the studio.
Evidently Rosie subscribes to the "worst stereotypes of mentally handicapped persons" school of acting. She balls up her fists and hold them close to my chest, like some gigantic flightless bird. She juts her lower chin out, her face frozen with about as much depth of feeling as an extra in a George Romero "Living Dead" movie...and her voice. It is not an exaggeration to say, if it were used against Iraqi prisoners, it would be at the top of the Human Rights violations list. This combination croak / screech - Gilford Godfrey, part Pee-Wee Herman, and part "Which Way Did He Go, George?" - is in fact a talent; neither my wife nor I could actually reproduce this noise she was making. Mentally challenged folk do not look like this, do not talk like this. Her performance insults them.
She is an insult to acting. Watching 10 seconds of her insulted my intelligence as well as assaulted my senses. The actors who worked with her should have their therapy bills covered by the studio.
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- jlschlesinger
- May 3, 2005
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By what name was Riding the Bus with My Sister (2005) officially released in Canada in English?
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