Paul Hogan trades crocodiles for custody battles in this forgotten '90s road trip tearjerker.
After losing custody of her infant child to her domineering husband, a distressed woman's cross country search for family becomes a journey of self discovery and redemption.
Acting
Rosanna Arquette commits harder than this script deserves.
Direction
John Badham squeezes actual tension from TV movie constraints.
Director
John Badham
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Paul Hogan's attempt at serious dramatic acting following his Crocodile Dundee peak, part of a brief '90s trend of comedians going sad on Lifetime-adjacent networks.
The film quietly captures pre-internet American desperation—Maurey literally cannot Google 'family law attorney near me' and that helplessness drives every plot point.
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