A father, a son, the woman who brought them together and tore them apart.
The story of Emma Riley (Holly Hunter), a woman who comes to work as a housekeeper for Richard Goddard (Michael Moriarty), a widower and his grown son Wendell (Kiefer Sutherland) and of their attachment to her to the point that she is asked by the father to marry... to the dismay of the son who also loves her. But the animosity of the two men toward each other is finally resolved when she becomes intentionally pregnant, possibly by one or the other as she goes to bed with both men within a matter of days, causing neither to win her for himself, but both to become bound together because of the child.
Also starring Shirley Douglas, Allegra Fulton, Carrie Preston and Jackie Richardson. Written by Joanna McClelland Glass, directed by Kiefer Sutherland.
Special Agent Matti
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M (Low level coarse language)
106 minutes (1:46 hours)
11 April 2001