[REL] Loyalties (1986)

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Id love to know the name of this movie I remember watching on cable ages ago.
It was possibly a made for TV movie, and it was way OT!!

I only really remember the OT scenes:
The girl (11 or 12 years old) playing on a beach in her bikini with her family.
An older man (maybe 50 years old) keeps playfully lifting her up in the air, and I can already tell he is lusting after her.

One evening the young girl is home alone.
The old man from the beach comes to the house (I don’t know who he is, uncle / step dad etc?), to look after her.

I think the uncle spikes her drink with alcohol, and then makes a pass at her, she struggles and manages to escape, but he catches up with her and..... well you can imagine the rest.

The film was certainly American - mid to late 80's or maybe early 90's, and I am 90% sure the old man was one of the characters I recognised from the film The Day After Tomorrow.. Kenneth Welsh.

Iv googled loads of key words but to know avail, and iv searched IMDB for movies starring Kenneth Welsh, but so many of them offer no synopsis.

This is a long shot, but just maybe someone knows this film.

[rmt@36]

I believe the movies title is "Loyalties". The description seems to fit

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The year, the description, it all fits.

Thanks rmt.

Now to find it.

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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... %26fvi%3D1

If only I still had a vhs player and the facility to copy to disc.

[billanben]

This one ??

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091443/

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yep

[ghost]

Hmm maybe i will buy it, but $ 15 for shiping is pretty much...

It is really worth Debaser?

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It is really worth Debaser?

Thats what scares me.
Obviously I am hoping someone will buy it, but I am simply casting my mind back to what i remember some 18 years ago.. and the scenes were (I thought) very well etched in my mind.
That and being sure this is indeed the film in question!

Going by the clues I gave, I dont see how this cant be the same film:-

The film was certainly American - mid to late 80's or maybe early 90's, and I am 90% sure the old man was one of the characters I recognised from the film The Day After Tomorrow.. Kenneth Welsh.

Lets see if we can find out more of what I remember.

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Ok, this will confirm this is the film in question -

Loyalties, Wheeler's first feature, released in 1986, tells the story about the power of female friendship in the face of suffering and adversity, a recurring theme in many of her films. Lily Sutton (Susan Wooldridge) is the upper-middle-class English woman who finds herself stranded in the middle of an isolated Albertan town with three young children and an emotionally unavailable husband. Despite appearances of bourgeois bliss, Lily is alienated, depressed and exhausted. To improve domestic matters, Lily's husband, Dr. David Sutton (Kenneth Welsh), hires a local native woman, Rosanne (Tantoo Cardinal), to help clean house and babysit. At first the women dislike each other intensely; you can cut the class and racial tension with a knife. However, despite their cultural and socio-economic differences, the women discover their situations are perhaps more similar than at first glance. Rosanne's alcoholic boyfriend, Eddy (Tom Jackson), beats her up on occasion; Lily's so-called respectable husband has an unhealthy penchant for little girls, the reason the Suttons have transferred into the middle of nowhere. The Suttons are running from notoriety. Rosanne has already kicked the pitiful Eddy out of the house. Lily needs to find the inner strength to do the same. This comes to the fore when Leona, Rosanne's prepubescent daughter, becomes the object and victim of Dr. Sutton's perverse affections.

The power of this film is realized in the execution of its resolution, a resolution rooted in a tradition of realism. In a moment of mother's rage, Rosanne almost throws everything away for the sake of revenge. It's Lily who stops her, risking losing Rosanne's faith in her. Through this non-violent act of selflessness and courage, Lily causes reason to reign over madness and vengeance. We rarely see this kind of resolution in American films. Despite the horror that Lily and Rosanne must endure, they manage to triumph over adversity on their own terms with a sense of dignity, justice and peace, and they do it together. Any melodramatic impulses or sentiment is subverted by stoic pragmatism. At the end of the film, Rosanne, having learned the truth, embraces Lily and offers her and her children a place to live in her shabby little house, amid the Albertan wilderness. For the first time in her unhappy life, Lily is finally home.

What I cant promise is just how much the children feature in the film..
I really just remember that scene, plus I think I only watched the last half the film.

Still. the reviews I've read aren't too shabby!!

[sprocket]

I've just bought this from Amazon.