DANIELLE STEEL'S FULL CIRCLE 1996
A film review by Timothy Voon
Copyright 1997 Timothy Voon
Directed by Bethany Rooney Cast Corbin Bernsen, Reed Diamond, Eric Lutes, Teri Polo, Erika Slezak Written by Karol Ann Hoeffner, Pamela Long, Danielle Steel (novel)
I was flipping channels, whilst having a snack and … well ….I came across "Full Circle".
There's no point discussing acting or make, because we all know that this movie was not made for Oscar contention. What interested me was the plot? What makes people buy Danielle Steel's books?
It's about a girl who was raped by her mother's lover's son. The event is hushed up because the mother, does not want to lose her lover boy. The girl grows up to be a successful attorney, whose best friend, a guy, becomes crippled in a car accident. She falls in love with the father of her best friend, but rejects his advances because her best friend is in love with her. She rejects a marriage proposal from her best friend, so he marries somebody else.
So you think at this point the way is left open for her to marry the father, but not so.
Instead she falls in love with a colleague who is married, but separated from his wife. The colleague promises to file for divorce so that he can marry her, but remains undecided about finalising it. Then comes the cheesiest line in the whole movie. When he tells her ‘I can't decide, I love you both.'
Throw-up.
Anyway, she leaves him. The boy friend dies of renal failure, and the father marries someone else. So, that's why it's called "Full Circle" - she starts alone and ends up alone- hooray! But not so. She has to spoil the movie by marrying a high court judge and having a kid; and the real reason why the movie is called "First Circle" is something to do with love, and forgiveness … all which escapes me?
Timothy Voon e-mail: stirling@netlink.com.au
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