*SPOILERS*
After reading the plot summary provided by my digital cable, I was laughing with incredulity: So, *this* was the inspiration for the ridiculously funny plot twist in SOAPDISH!
But the cable guide did give it three stars, and since I've always liked Mare Winningham (so much that I even bought her CD) I gave the movie a shot even though it was on the Lifetime Movie Network, home of hundreds of insufferably cheesy weepers. How surprised I was when WHO IS JULIA treated its fantastical premise with intelligence and the seriousness it required to be plausible.
At first I felt the movie should have been set in the future to make it more believable, but doing that would take a higher budget than a TV movie would allow, and after a while it didn't matter.
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It's now been a few weeks since I wrote the above paragraphs. It was very late when I started, so I decided to sleep on the rest of my thoughts. But now it's almost a month later and I'm having trouble remembering where I was going with this review. Let's see what I can pull out of my (own) brain.
Hmm. The only thing that's coming to me is the end, when the husband of the donor pleads with Mare to...wait a minute, I'm confused. It was the husband of the body of Mare with the brain of someone else because their son recognized her but she didn't know him. Yes, that sounds right. Anyway, the husband was understandably distraught and was begging Mare to stay with them. I don't remember the specifics, but he got a little rough with Mare but quickly calmed himself down and accepted that his wife was gone, despite her body standing right in front of him.
I think that was the end. Sorry this review couldn't be more helpful. I still recommend the movie, even though I don't recall why.
After reading the plot summary provided by my digital cable, I was laughing with incredulity: So, *this* was the inspiration for the ridiculously funny plot twist in SOAPDISH!
But the cable guide did give it three stars, and since I've always liked Mare Winningham (so much that I even bought her CD) I gave the movie a shot even though it was on the Lifetime Movie Network, home of hundreds of insufferably cheesy weepers. How surprised I was when WHO IS JULIA treated its fantastical premise with intelligence and the seriousness it required to be plausible.
At first I felt the movie should have been set in the future to make it more believable, but doing that would take a higher budget than a TV movie would allow, and after a while it didn't matter.
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It's now been a few weeks since I wrote the above paragraphs. It was very late when I started, so I decided to sleep on the rest of my thoughts. But now it's almost a month later and I'm having trouble remembering where I was going with this review. Let's see what I can pull out of my (own) brain.
Hmm. The only thing that's coming to me is the end, when the husband of the donor pleads with Mare to...wait a minute, I'm confused. It was the husband of the body of Mare with the brain of someone else because their son recognized her but she didn't know him. Yes, that sounds right. Anyway, the husband was understandably distraught and was begging Mare to stay with them. I don't remember the specifics, but he got a little rough with Mare but quickly calmed himself down and accepted that his wife was gone, despite her body standing right in front of him.
I think that was the end. Sorry this review couldn't be more helpful. I still recommend the movie, even though I don't recall why.