This was really over-blown drama. A college professor wants to write a book about a songwriter who died young and meets tremendous opposition from his widow at the film's beginning. Everyone says she is still grieving. Nonsense. She is already having a sexual escapade with another man and her dancing at the local club wasn't exactly mournful either.
This becomes a story of how a relationship builds between the professor and young girl. Blythe Danner, as her mother, is an interesting character. In the way she is speaking, you would swear that it was her son and not her son-in-law who died.
The common denominator here for both the professor and young widow is suicide, and how it both touched them.
Perhaps, it was the chilling cold of Maine that couldn't make me warm up to this film. Neither could the characters either.
This becomes a story of how a relationship builds between the professor and young girl. Blythe Danner, as her mother, is an interesting character. In the way she is speaking, you would swear that it was her son and not her son-in-law who died.
The common denominator here for both the professor and young widow is suicide, and how it both touched them.
Perhaps, it was the chilling cold of Maine that couldn't make me warm up to this film. Neither could the characters either.