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Doing Time on Maple Drive

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Doing Time on Maple Drive
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1hr 37min
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1992
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20th Century Fox
Synopsis: In this made-for-TV drama, a New England family's secrets all come tumbling out at once as they spend a weekend together to celebrate the engagement of their youngest son. Lisa Carter (Bibi Besch) and her military husband, Phil (James B. Sikking), couldn't be happier when their youngest son, Matt (William McNamara), brings his rich bride-to-be, Allison (Lori Loughlin), home from Yale. Col. Carter views Matt as the perfect son, especially given the way his other children have turned out. Tim (Jim ... Full Synopsis
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Like similar family melodramas, from the independent film The Myth of Fingerprints to the made-for-cable outing The Twilight of the Golds, this TV movie-of-the-week lays on the dysfunction a bit too thickly. Despite a few mawkish moments and the familiarity of its domestic conflicts, though, Doing Time on Maple Drive proves an effective portrait of middle-class angst. A pre-Ace Ventura Jim Carrey drinks ... Full Review
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