Melissa Gilbert stars as Marygold/Meredith.A sad and lonely writer returning to her home town in England for the first time since she was about 6 or 7 years old,after being adopted and raised in America.
While there she decides to look for her mother's grave,and finds out her memories are not exactly what she thought they were,her mother is alive.
She then sets out to find her mother and some answers and finds both.
She also falls in love, of course, but has a problem with long term commitments.
Melissa Gilbert does a good job here but the best performance is turned in by Jean Simmons as Kathrine Stanton (the mother).Simmons goes through a whole range of emotions in her time on cammera,and each one is done perfectly both in her face and voice.The real crimes here are that the writing could have been better,Simmons and Gilberts characters should have found each other earlier and they should have action more action between them,and the girl that played Simmons as a young woman not only had blond hair and Simmons dark brown,but the girl also had a completely different accent!!Did they really think no one would notice?! Also they photographed Simmons in the worst possible light,and even Gilbert looked kind of weird at times around her nose.
Still the daughters quest is interesting,and Simmons alone is worth the watch....though she's not the great beauty she once was her beautiful,classy voice is still beyond compare.
