Not really worth mentioning. It's something my sister-in-law insisted on watching on television the other night. It's similar to a made-for-Lifetime movie, but it was made for the Hallmark channel. There's one important difference that would have made it unbearable for Lifetime viewers: the protagonist is not only a man, but a ridiculously honorable man dedicated to his infant son. The movie was kind of interesting in a study of clichés, and as a look into the mind of complete idiots. Whoever wrote this has never been to college, has probably not had a child and perhaps not even an adult relationship. The story revolves around an 18 year-old boy who gets a full ride to Harvard. His girlfriend purposely gets pregnant to keep him from going, but his mother insists and he ends up going with pregnant new wife in tow. At first, life seems okay. I mean, after all, his scholarship pays for an apartment so nice I imagine it must cost something in the $5000 a month range. Of course, the boy can afford it because he works in the student book store eight hours a day. After the baby is born, however, the girl becomes jealous that he prefers his father to her and up and leaves both her husband to deal with both college and fatherhood alone (and is never heard from again, apparently!). Of course, despite struggling greatly, he eventually makes it out perfectly fine, with the help of Annie Potts, playing a psychic who gives him room and board. Once in a while, the dean of Harvard pops up to look down snootily upon the boy because, as he thinks, he's a hick from Boise. Or it could just be that he's so incredibly irresponsible that any sane person who came upon him would tell him to get his ass back to Boise, shut his damn mother up about Harvard, attend a local school while living at home and get his idiot wife in line.
Review of Freshman Father
