A young woman living in the woods with her husband, a struggling musician, and her young daughter, discovers she has terminal cancer. She begins to tape-record a journal of the time she has left so her daughter will know something of her when she grows up.
Acting
Cristina Raines sells terminal cheerfulness like her life depends on it.
Score
John Denver co-wrote the songs, so prepare for acoustic devastation.
Direction
Sargent lets scenes breathe until you can't breathe.
Director
Joseph Sargent
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on the real journal of Jacquelyn Helton, who died at 20 in 1971. The tape recorder device was literally her actual idea.
This TV movie was so devastating it got a brief theatrical release and two (!) sequel TV movies because America apparently wanted to keep sobbing.
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