Long Lost Son (2006)

Did you people see the same film I saw?

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Mildly entertaining movie about the romance between a Mom and her hot Long Lost Son. Set in a tropical paradise, Mom and Son go on many romantic dates. You can cut the sexual tension with a knife.Chase Crawford makes his debut here in an admirable fashion. Gabrielle Anwar as his Mom/Girlfriend is adequate in her role, and wears a series of tiny fetching bikinis on her romps with her Son.*SPOILER* One does wonder why Mom doesn't tell her Son who she is soon after their first date, but perhaps that would have spoiled the mood and put an end to further dates.Perfect movie for Valentines Day.

Not a very good movie, but Lifetime movies are generally like Harlequin romance novels. The basic premise is a woman's 4 year old son and estranged husband disappear on a boat trip during a storm. 14 years later, she suspects her son is still alive and looks for him. Honestly, I have to say she got what she deserved. She is going through a divorce with her very nice spouse, but holds a lot of resentment because it did not work out and "we are just different people" Her husband gets to see his son one weekend a month. What is that all about? The courts have a standard 2 weekend a month for non custodial parents, but because the divorce is not final and they are going through negotiations (and she knows how to work the system because she went to law school) the mother can dictate whatever she wants. She seems clearly upset when the father comes to pick his son up for visitation. When he tries to rationalize with her to work out a good parenting schedule and not use the lawyers, she is smug and refuses. He points out how she got the house and child support, while he was the one who put her through law school. Unfortunately, the system is lousy for fathers and this movie seems to show a fantasy that many men wish they could pull off. Fake their own death, take their kids with them and live in the Caribbean, ahhh if it were only that easy.

can anyone tell me the kind, type, or model of cabin cruiser boat owned by Craawford and his father in this movie??? It was the power boat that the son was on when the mother first contacted him. It was the boat the he used for "charters". Now i am just trying to fill up the ten line requirement for a posting This boat may be called a cabin cruiser or it may be called something else. Please respond to [email protected] thank you.The boat was big enough for a person to walk into standing up. The 3 of them were on the boat at the end of the movie. It had windows around the sides so you could see out .

We don't see very many TV movies anymore, because most evenings the DVD player is spinning a recent release. But we were attracted to this one. It involves a man and woman whose marriage has gone stale, they are going through a divorce that the husband doesn't want, and there is a 4 year old son in the middle.Gabrielle Anwar is the mother, Kristen Sheppard. She seems to have lost her love for her husband, who had put her through law school. It is 1992 and now she is enlisting the help of her legal friends to put together the divorce petition, and her husband is afraid he is being locked out of their son's life. Craig Sheffer is the husband and father, Quinn Halloran. A former Navy man, he loves the water and sailing, and their young son Mark appears to like it as well. As the movie begins he only has visitation rights one weekend a month. On one visitation, Quinn takes Mark out on the boat even though inclement weather and winds are forecast. To make a short statement, the boat ends up overturned, and the searchers find no trace of the dad or the son. Mom is broken up, and the movie switches to 14 years later, 2006, and she is re-married and apparently happy. However, some friends just came back from a vacation trip to a small island near South America and their home video shows a "Captain John" and his 18 year old son in charge of the boat they chartered, and Kristen recognizes her husband in the video, and suspects that the young man is her son, thought to be dead for 14 years.So, most of the movie is to see if Kristen can track down her former husband and her son and establish the relationship she never was able to.Chace Crawford, a good-looking young man from Texas, is the grown son, Matthew Williams / Mark Halloran. I found myself sympathizing with the father, Quinn. He apparently did a great job of raising the boy, and only spoke admiringly of his mom Kristen, who he was told died in a house fire. I know how hard it is when divorce splits up a family and, even though what Quinn did was legally wrong, I did not find it as "wrong" as Kristen's attempts to lock him out of their son's life.SPOILERS: Kristen did catch up with them, and had a nice day boating and visiting with her son, while Quinn was elsewhere. But when he found out Kristen was there, Quinn and Mark met off on another small island as a hurricane was threatening. Kristen and Mark escaped with the help of a rescue helicopter, but Quinn took the small boat away. It ended with him stranded on nothing more than an rocky outcropping, and we don't know how much longer he will survive. But at least he had 18 years with his son, and he doesn't have to endure a prison sentence.