

A bereaved man takes a job at a health care center, where he befriends an elderly and embittered woman - and as time passes, he becomes obsessed with reuniting her with her long-lost true love.
Acting
Vanessa Redgrave's glare could freeze hell.
Writing
Dual timelines that actually earn their emotional payoff.

Director
Karen Arthur
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Richard Paul Evans' novel; the author built a mini-empire on exactly this flavor of sentimental tearjerker.
Terry O'Quinn plays the father here between his iconic turns as Locke's dad and Lost's mysterious Man in Black—dude cornered the market on complicated patriarchs.