Location-hopping tale starts in 1982 in New York City, where 50ish writer Frances (Jacqueline Bisset) shows her son Morgan (Nick Stahl) the Washington Heights area where she grew up. It’s a strategy that intrigues and creates certain resonances but, like the women themselves, connects only indirectly. Of course, there are fresh ways of approaching even the most banal subject matter, and Munch navigates around the obvious cliches while constructing a dual-tracked drama based on echoes between the older and younger women’s lives. Basic setup, which involves a mother dying of cancer and the search for her by the daughter she has never met, virtually defines cloying telefilm fodder.
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