A Memory in My Heart

March. 02,1999      
Rating:
6
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Jane Seymour stars in this made-for-TV drama as Rebecca Blake, a bookstore employee who lives contently in San Pedro, California with her construction-worker husband Joe (A Martinez). A chance meeting with a woman named Lynn Wyman (Cathy Lee Crosby), coupled with her recent nightmares and searing headaches (one of which has prompted a spectacular collapse at her local grocery store), lead Lynn to the inescapable conclusion that she is an amnesiac--and that she might be Abbie Stewart, who has another family in Fillmore County. Journeying to Abbie's hometown to learn the truth, our heroine is put off somewhat by the curiously mixed reaction of the man who might be her "other" husband, school principal Chase Stewart (Bruce Davison). The key to mystery may not be the surrealistic dreams experienced by Rebecca/Abbie, but instead that painful-looking gash in her head.

Jane Seymour as  Rebecca Blake
Bruce Davison as  Chase Stewart
A Martinez as  Joe Vega
David Keith as  Sheriff Matt Carden
Colton James as  Ethan Stewart
Mika Boorem as  Lily Stewart
Cathy Lee Crosby as  Lynn Fisher
Michele Marsh as  Nell
Casey Sander as  Frank
William Marquez as  Isidro Vega

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Reviews

Perry Kate
1999/03/02

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

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ThiefHott
1999/03/03

Too much of everything

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Intcatinfo
1999/03/04

A Masterpiece!

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Guillelmina
1999/03/05

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

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edwagreen
1999/03/06

Jane Seymour is wonderful here as mother suffering from amnesia as a result of the beating she got from her husband, a wealthy school principal. He was able to go to court and charge abandonment and therefore obtain custody of the children. Finally, he tells the children that their mother is dead.8 years later, Seymour, who doesn't remember a thing, has a chance meeting with a fellow waitress. The latter fills her in on her life and of course, she goes back to Fillmore California. Naturally, she is threatened by her husband, a much older looking but totally effective Bruce Davison. Remember him in his supporting Oscar nomination for 1989's "Longtime Companion?" He was also the older Patrick in the 1974 Lucille Ball "Mame" vehicle.This terrific film just shows you what a brutal man can do when he has so much power in town.

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Band_Freak89
1999/03/07

I love this movie! I couldn't stop watching it. I wanted to see it to the end with out and interruptions. Rebecca loved her kids so much and her ex-husband made it to where she couldn't remember who she was. Her new husband loves her so much that he was scared that he was going to lose her when she went to find out what happened in her past that gave the scar on her forehead. When she was stopped by a lady and called her Abbie and asked if she got her kids back she had to find out what had happened to her. She went to her old town that the lady told her that she used to live in and remembered some of things that happened to her gradually. The more time she spent their the more she started remembering. This movie just kept getting better and you couldn't predict what would happen next.Just watch and see how great this movie really is! You wont be able to stop watching it!! You will want to keep watching it to see what will happen next!

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jotix100
1999/03/08

Rebecca Blake, the attractive woman one sees at the beginning of this made for television movie, is having a hard time at her local super market where she collapses after she sees a young child , who obviously is a reminder of someone she knows. One realizes right away this woman has no recollection and no memory of who she is, or where she came from. Rebecca is happily married to Joe, a good man that clearly adores her.When she meets by chance someone on the street who greets her as Abby, she tells the woman she must have made a mistake, but that triggers in her mind a doubt. She goes back to this lady, who tells her how she met her and the area of California she was from. Rebecca pleads with Joe to let her go to unravel the mystery and all the tangled web in her mind.Harry Winer directed this story that supposedly is based on a true story, as most television movies are. The story is greatly helped by the heartfelt performances of the principals. Jane Seymour is Rebecca, the woman who lost her life through no choice of her own. Bruce Davison is Chase, her former husband who is the key player in what happened to Abby/Rebecca. David Keith is the sheriff of the small California town where Abby finds the missing pieces of her past. A. Martinez plays Joe, the new man in Abby's life.The film was totally shot in the town of Fillmore, California, which is the center of the orange growing industry and offers a magnificent setting for the story. Since it's a melodrama, prepare the Kleenex, but the film is worth watching thanks to what director Winer did with this story.

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petershelleyau
1999/03/09

Executive produced by James Keach, Jane Seymour is Rebecca Vega, a bookstore worker living in San Pedro with construction worker husband Joe (A. Martinez), but she has headaches and nightmares. She meets Lynn Wyman (Cathy Lee Crosby) who knew Rebecca as Abbie Stewart with 3 children - Jenna (Amanda Barfield), Ethan (Colton James) and Lilly (Mika Boorem) - and Rebecca goes to Fillmore County to investigate her past. Seymour has a gash in her forehead which we later see is from being hit with a fireplace poker, and in her flashback memory her long hair is shoulder length and she wears virginal white. She is actually lit unflatteringly, looking tired and leathery, perhaps partly due to her traumatised state, so when her former husband school principal Chase (Bruce Davison) tells her how beautiful she is, it sounds odd. Seymour provides sobless tears, we see her handwriting, wears a stick in her hair worn up, overdoes a hesitation in opening a buzzed door, and has a campy panic-attack faint in a supermarket. The teleplay by Lindsay Harrison and Renee Longstreet, based on a true story, has a howler in Rebecca/Abbie to Chase `I've learned a lot from you. School's over.', and Jenna has a good line in sarcasm when she tells her mother to take her locket in case she loses her memory again, but director Harry Winer goes all out with the nightmare/daymare visions - black and white, tilted and subjective camera, whiplash editing, slow motion, stop motion, and lightning flashes, and fire - plus a choir in the music of Mark Snow.

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