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A small town schoolteacher is hunted by a paroled con who holds the secret of her dark past.

Whilst I understand the psychology behind this TV movie....

Mysterious, but any movie that features Mare Winningham is always great!

I don&#39;t know how so many people got the storyline wrong.
Elaine killed her father, and delivered herself from a manipulative and abusive father.
Years ago Elaine&#39;s mother was killed and her father crippled by an intruder. They never catch the intruder. Fast forward several years/decades. A local woman church woman puts Elaine in touch with a convict to engage in penpal writing, as an act of community service. They get to know each other, and the convict, Charles Skyler becomes paroled. 
Here are the major spoilers: Charles tells Elaine thath his mother was a patient of her Father&#39;s (Lloyd Bridges) and that Bridges used her and she became pregnant (with Charles). Bridges just tossed her away. so you see, they are half siblings. It was Charle&#39;s mother who killed Bridges wife and crippled Bridges. Also, it was NOT Charles who killed Addison/Bridges, but Elaine. Charles told Elaine that the key Charles gave his mother was to the little guest house where his &quot;office&quot; was. Next, we see Elaine in her car, spilling the contents of her purse out on the seat and picking up said key. When Elaine returns home she confronts her dad, insisting he tell her the truth about Charles&#39; mother - and he does - very crudely. Elaine then tells her dad that she is pregnant (it is from a married man) and her dad first starts to say &quot;who in the hell would want a child with..&quot; What a horrible man! so Bridges/Addison then tells Elaine it&#39;s ok, he hasn&#39;t performed many abortions but they aren&#39;t complicated and he can perform an abortion on her and no one has to know. she is so hurt and angry and finally sees her dad for the awful man that he is. The next day her dad is going to his &quot;office&quot; to see a patient. Elaine had taken the call and set up the appointment. we see a figure with a coat and gloves hit Bridges in the head. Later we see Elaine in her car crying and pulls over and takes off some gloves - looks like the same winter coat and gloves the killer was wearing. Also, why is she crying? The police haven&#39;t alerted her yet to the death of her scum bag father yet. Finally one of the reviewers mentioned how Elaine seemed &quot;loving&quot; toward Charles, well she had just found out that he was her half brother... Anyhow Elaine killed her dad. Pretty obvious. And Charles actually was willing to have the police arrest him for the murder. When the police chief, the man Elaine loves and was having an affair with, finds the murder weapon, he throws it into the ocean. Then makes up a story that the medicine cabinet in the doctor&#39;s office had been broken into so the murder was probably drug related. He is doing this to cover for Elaine. He also tells her she should move on. At the end we see that Elaine and Charles, her half brother, have kept in touch and are both doing well. Elaine mentions that she hopes God will not judge her too harshly or something like that. How anyone see this movie and think that Charles killed bridges/addison is beyond me. Good movie, great acting. I really enjoyed it.

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The Deliverance of Elaine

****Mild Spoilers!**** This movie starts out pretty well, and right up until the end, I had enjoyed it. The movie is mysterious throughout, with wonderful twists and turns. While &quot;The Deliverance of Elaine&quot; may not have the best-looking actors and actresses in it (Sorry....I&#39;m just stating my opinion) or wonderful acting, the story line speaks for itself. However, I was completely confused by the ending. Somehow, Elaine ends up entangled with Charlie, almost loving him, it seems. That&#39;s just crazy! He&#39;s crazy, and then he kills her dad. Not only does she not seem angry at him, this seems to pull the two together even more. I don&#39;t recommend this movie.

Spoiler Alert I watched this film last week and found it absorbing. Chris Cooper always turns in an excellent performance no matter what the material and Lloyd Bridges played the nastiest character so well his murder came as no surprise to me. The problem I had was not with the film but the comments made by the previous viewer who expressed confusion as to the motivations of the character &quot;Elaine&quot; played by Mare Winningham and the ending. The confusion was caused because Cooper&#39;s character did not kill the father, some-one else did! Based on my &quot;spoiling&quot; of the &quot;mild spoiler&quot; I would recommend this film because the ultimate resolution and the ending are top notch.

....I still found it irritating in a way I find difficult to express. Maybe it was the way the actors performed, but almost everyone in this film irritated me, in the way characters in M. Night Shyamalan films irritate me (albeit on a lower and less thought-out level). Their personalities are the type that engender more homicidal tendencies than sympathy, but conversely the character who was supposed to be the most unsympathetic, Elaine&#39;s father Addison, was played with a curious geniality by Lloyd Bridges that belied the lines he was given to deliver. Maybe I just have a hard time in seeing Bridges as the scum Addison is supposed to be. Elaine, a total mess as a person, stumbled around for most of the movie, waiting for a reason to kill her father (as if she really needed any) and Charlie is the kind of person whose &quot;help&quot; should have been met with a shotgun, rather than fondness. It might hurt to set things right, but sometimes just coming out and saying what the hell is going on can save on a lot of needless pain (especially for the viewers). Not a total loss of a movie, but certainly not one I&#39;d go out of my way to see again.

Chris Cooper has really emerged recently as a major star, what with his Force of Nature performance in `Sea Biscuit&#39; and his Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in `Adaptation&#39;.  But his talent was evident long before all this belated recognition, and this little movie is a one place to enjoy it.  Yes, this is a TV movie, but beside the obvious asset of Chris Cooper in the lead role, it has more going for it.  Good supporting performances from Mare Winningham and Lloyd Bridges.  Above average camera work, and locations that feel like a real town with authentic people, help create an environment worthy of these actors.  As for Chris, he turns in his trademark understated performance.  Like all great film actors he makes it look so easy.

The movie has a good plot. Lloyd Bridges does a fantastic job! I just don&#39;t understand the relationship between Elaine and Charlie. Not only is he a murderer, he kills her father! She is not the least bit upset! The ending leaves a lot to be desired. I recommend watching it , if nothing else to try to explain the end!

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The Deliverance of Elaine

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Whilst I understand the psychology behind this TV movie....

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