Not familiar with Kim Delaney's work between "All My Children" and "General Hospital", I discovered this movie by accident. Within ten minutes of watching it, I realized I had seen it before, but it was 1973 and a TV movie starring Cloris Leachman. Okay, so this is not a remake of that, but it is nearly the same, about a woman on the road picking up a sexy hitchhiker and putting herself in jeopardy by having a fling with him. Miles O'Keefe is a sexy bad boy, and being a bad boy means he can go either one of two ways. He can either be violently dangerous or an anti-hero who has a lot of good qualities and just needs a good break. It's pretty obvious where this is going to go based on their sex scene just hours after they've met, pretty passionate, but a passionate affair that takes place shortly after people have met is usually not an affair to continue.
Pretty racy stuff for a TV movie because it's obvious that the two stars in their love scene are not clothed. At least he isn't with a very visible backside. But this is very cliched and weakly written and the characters are straight out of a bad dime-store novel. Delaney is certainly beautiful, about her character, no matter how smart he is in her career, isn't the wisest in life. Delaney however is such a smart actress that she seems really wrong for this type of part. Too many twists that are unrealistic and a feeling that this was just rushed together to get it out and onto cable TV when there seems to be a lot of really bad quota quickies made for the new medium with an increasing number of channels.
Pretty racy stuff for a TV movie because it's obvious that the two stars in their love scene are not clothed. At least he isn't with a very visible backside. But this is very cliched and weakly written and the characters are straight out of a bad dime-store novel. Delaney is certainly beautiful, about her character, no matter how smart he is in her career, isn't the wisest in life. Delaney however is such a smart actress that she seems really wrong for this type of part. Too many twists that are unrealistic and a feeling that this was just rushed together to get it out and onto cable TV when there seems to be a lot of really bad quota quickies made for the new medium with an increasing number of channels.