Chasing Secrets is a made for TV movie that sucked me in on Lifetime TV this am. I hate it when movies make me cry because they are so touching. I must view it as a sign that I am weak or something.
I remember getting sucked in to an old movie years ago. I was staying up pretty late channel surfing (or probably knob turning, ahem, as it was probably before the remote, gasp). I don't know the name of the movie. I don't remember any actors or actresses. I do remember it was a black and white movie maybe around the Rebecca time, or maybe even before. It was about two children from different social levels who meet and pledge true love to each other for eternity. After they are separated, the women marries (I think she heard he was dead or something) and when the guy shows up he ends up killing her husband and is sentenced to life in prision. He survives by having her visit him in his dreams and when he dies they are walking amongst flowers heaven. It was the kind of movie that I always chastise myself for staying up to 3am to see the end.
I would give that movie a half acorn if I knew what it was called. But then, I digress.
Chasing Secrets is sappy in the way Lifetime movies are. I know I get sucked in to these shows because the stories are very nice and actors and actresses are usually people who exude goodness or are thoroughly depraved. It really helps to know who the good guys are and who the bad guys are.
In this story a young "white trash" child grows up in a very abusive family. The family supports itself by using the child's mom as "bait" in a bar, and when she goes out the fella, her grandfather bushwhacks him and robs him. The child runs down a path one day and meets a black family who provide her with the parenting and love she never had. The movie ends with her returning years later, successful in life, love and family and telling the tale to her daughter.
Shen she opens a present left by the family, it is the apron made with love with her name embroidered on it. Waaaah! The tears came. And I swear, I'm not pregnant! I'll rate this 3/5 acorns.
BTW, this movie was much better then The Promise.
This was a very sappy Chinese action/comedy/romance/fantasy, that was just a little too corny and over the top. A man from the Land of Snow becomes a slave after his village is destroyed when he is a child. He doesn't remember who he is or where he comes from. He becomes the slave of a general and the general uses him to get the woman he loves from the King. Because the slave is dressed in the general's armor, it is assumed the general is the assassin. The woman also started as an urchin who in an encounter with a goddess promises that she will forsake love for riches, until time runs backward, blah blah blah. Well I won't bore you with more, but the slave from the Land of Snow can really run fast! I will rate it 2/5 acorns because I love the costumes and the scenary. The fight scenes are all bogus. Rent this, don't buy it:)
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