Beau Bridges, Collin Wilcox Paxton, Norman Max Maxwell

Director Diane Keaton brings a tender touch to Wildflower, a Lifetime cable-TV movie showcasing early-career excellence from Reese Witherspoon and Patricia Arquette. Witherspoon's big-screen de...( read more  read more... )but in The Man in the Moon had premiered shortly before this movie's original broadcast in 1991, and a year earlier, Arquette had starred in a Keaton-directed CBS Schoolbreak Special, The Boy with the Crazy Brother. These rising talents are well served by Sara Flanigan's teleplay, closely adapted from her popular juvenile novel Alice. Set in the mid-1930s, the story follows two compassionate teens (Witherspoon, William McNamara) who discover and essentially adopt a partially deaf epileptic (Arquette) who'd been locked away by her psychotically abusive father. Beau Bridges and Susan Blakely provide different parental perspectives, and while Keaton doesn't always avoid Flanigan's tear-jerking sentiment, she handles it with delicate grace. Aiding her are a gifted cast and the fine cinematography of Janusz Kaminski, who would soon begin an enduring collaboration with Steven Spielberg. --Jeff Shannon

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PG-13, 94 min.

Directed by: Diane Keaton

Release Date: December 3, 1991

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DVD Release Date: January 21, 2003

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  • May 30, 2009
    My all-time-fav movie, the caring and friendship offered by two decent and compassionate sibling teenagers transforms a severely abused and neglected hearing-impaired girl into a beautiful young woman.
  • July 27, 2008
    good movie. very sad though. Patricia Arquette acted wonderfully in this one.
  • February 26, 2008
    Esta pelicula es muy romantica.
  • February 17, 2008
    Yeees, it was hard to get this movie, but worth every minute
  • January 13, 2008
    "Oh, I never got over those blue eyes..."
  • November 9, 2007
    this one has always been one of my favs, its very much a drama, very touching, its an all around great movie, normally i hate dramas but this one is definatley worth owning!
  • August 30, 2007
    this was the movie i first saw reese in. i loved this movie.
  • August 27, 2007
    Patricia Arquette's acting as an epilepticc and partly deaf girl was stunning!
    Reese Witherspoon was also outstanding as she was only fifteen.
    It's a terrific story line and I really felt the main characters pain and sorrows.
  • August 23, 2007
    Really beautiful. The acting is fantastic! The dialouge was really great!

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    September 28, 2006
    i love this movie but its sad and also good to..

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