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Getting tired of wholesome TV families? Sick of adorable, wisecracking children? Up to here with Cosby? Well, meet the Schreuder family. Mother is a divorced Manhattan social climber who badgers her young daughter into tears with trivial school lessons, locks her less favored son out of the house for days...
At Mother's Request (the second TV film to be launched but the first completed) is not merely about strange people, it is a strange TV drama. Shot on location in New York City and Utah and directed by Michael Tuchner, it has * a seedy, B-movie feel. The plot...
But the absence of background or typical TV moralizing gives At Mother's Request its tabloid appeal. Quite simply, these people are too crazy to learn anything from. Frances is not merely an overdemanding mother but a near psychotic whose fevered outbursts ("How dare you mention Las Vegas in this...
As Frances, Stefanie Powers hits one note loud and often: she speaks nearly all her lines in a sort of loony, distracted haze. Though her performance lacks shadings, she creates a memorable monster. Doug McKeon and Corey Parker are at once scary and pathetic as her sons. E.G. Marshall, John...
Besides being young, the women's team is also small. Although it posted a respectable 4-3 record last winter, Co-Captain Frances Edozien noted that this year's squad will lack personnel to participate in certain events. One big hole, as of yet unfilled, was opened by the graduation...