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34 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 8 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 8
  3. Negative: 4 out of 8
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  1. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Ernest Hardy
    70
    Has a warm and intimate feel that helps push it a little deeper than its cable movie-of-the-week blueprint.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    60
    Well-paced and solidly crafted.
  3. Variety
    Reviewed by: David Sprague
    60
    Covers familiar territory unevenly, but Gil Cates Jr. directs his freshman feature with a mostly assured hand.
  4. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    40
    The main characters are defined by their problems, and the secondary characters (notably Brigette's parents) are so crudely drawn it's hard to imagine what Cates was thinking.
  5. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Paul Malcolm
    30
    Lamely engineered and thoroughly exploited tragedy.
  6. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Mark Holcomb
    30
    So committed to its by-the-numbers banality you wonder why it isn't part of the fall TV lineup.
  7. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: A.O. Scott
    30
    By the end the most vivid figure on the screen is the lovable doggie who goes wherever dangling fingers are waiting to give the happy pooch a scratch.
  8. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Foreman
    25
    The film is only 91 minutes long, but it seemed to stretch out for days.
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