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A Memory in My Heart

1999 · 120 min

A slow-burning TV drama that keeps you quietly unsettled as a woman's buried past surfaces through dreams and doubt.

Directed by
Harry Winer
Genres
Drama, Thriller, Tv movie
Overview
Jane Seymour stars in this made-for-TV drama as Rebecca Blake, a bookstore employee who lives contently in San Pedro, California with her construction-worker husband Joe (A Martinez). A chance meeting with a woman named Lynn Wyman (Cathy Lee Crosby), coupled with her recent nightmares and searing headaches (one of which has prompted a spectacular collapse at her local grocery store), lead Lynn to the inescapable conclusion that she is an amnesiac--and that she might be Abbie Stewart, who has another family in Fillmore County. Journeying to Abbie's hometown to learn the truth, our heroine is put off somewhat by the curiously mixed reaction of the man who might be her "other" husband, school principal Chase Stewart (Bruce Davison). The key to mystery may not be the surrealistic dreams experienced by Rebecca/Abbie, but instead that painful-looking gash in her head.

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Directed by
Harry Winer
Genres
Drama, Thriller, Tv movie
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • memory
  • family
  • deception
  • trauma
Places
  • small town
  • suburbs
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • twist ending
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror2
Humour2
Realism7
Romance4
Tension6
Darkness5
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

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Genres
drama, thriller, tv movie
Directed by
Harry Winer
Written by
Lindsay Harrison, Renee Longstreet
Starring
Jane Seymour, Bruce Davison, A Martinez, David Keith, Amanda Barfield, Colton James, Mika Boorem, Cathy Lee Crosby
Music
Mark Snow
Cinematography
Donald M. Morgan
Runtime
120 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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