An English teacher and struggling single mother has her life disrupted when the father who abandoned her as a child comes back into her life.
Casts Marsha Mason, Jason Robards, Donald Sutherland, Matthew Broderick, Dody Goodman, Sal Viscuso, Panchito Gómez, Charley Lau, Brian Part, Billie Bird
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IMDB 6.2 | Mar , 2004
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IMDB 6.1 | Sep , 2005
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IMDB 5.2 | Sep , 2004
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IMDB 5.3 | Feb , 1992
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IMDB 6.6 | Oct , 2007
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