Love Child (1982 film)

Love Child is a 1982 biopic based on the life of Terry Jean Moore. The film stars Amy Madigan, Beau Bridges, and Mackenzie Phillips.

Janet Maslin of The New York Times found the film a stretch Larry Peerce, who directed Love Child, tries for as much prisonmovie stridency as the material will bear, but his portrait of Terry is so mild that the films harsher touches seem gratuitous. The periodic catfights among the prisoners are certainly nasty, but they dont contribute to any overall continuity. ...Amy Madigan, a newcomer who plays Terry, makes her a rawboned, angry tomboy at first only gradually is the childcryingoutforhelp side of the character revealed. Miss Madigan seems potentially a tough, unusual actress, but Mr. Peerce keeps her at full throttle so much of the time that the performance loses its force. Her wildeyed, furious mannerisms, at first quite arresting, become familiar long before they should. Miss Madigan isnt alone in this all of the films characters have a tendency to come on too strong and then wear out their welcomes.Love Child was released to DVD by Warner Home Video on June 1st, 2010 via the Warner Archive DVDondemand service available through Amazon. ........

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