Maybe I'll Come Home In The Spring
Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
  • Now We Know Where She Got "You Love Me, You Really Love Me"
  • I had no idea this was a made for tv movie
  • Corny and Stupid
  • Great part for Sally Field
  • Superior TV Movie
Maybe I'll Come Home In The Spring
Starring: Sally Field , Eleanor Parker , Lane Bradbury , David Carradine , and Jackie Cooper
Director: Joseph Sargent
Manufacturer: Passion Productions
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ASIN: B0000VLLHA
Release Date: 2003-09-30

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Now We Know Where She Got "You Love Me, You Really Love Me".......2006-09-02

This must have been one of those avantgarde films of the Seventies to promote the hippie lifestyle. Drugs with a capital D is what it was all about, and the rebellion of children who are not trusted or shown respect by their disapproving parents. What appealed to me was the fact that Linda Ronstadt's songs (those I have never heard) were used at intervals to show how Denice really felt. Sally Field and the actress who played her younger sister both had little girl voices, and had never grown up -- due to the fact that the extremely strict parents had never let them grow, and so Denice decided to fly away to find herself in the hippie world. First, she had gone to Chicago, but finding no one substantial there, she ended up a year later out in L.A. where the beautiful people find their fixes.

The issue I found at the sale showed a beautiful Sally Field, as far from Gidget as possible, with a young David Carradine, rough around the edges. The street scene has a motorcycle formation which did not take place in the film. After she returned to the upscale home complete with swimming pool, the character played by Carradine first stole a pest control truck and then an ice cream truck to get to her parents' home. The younger sister hid her drugs in capsules which looked like real medicine. All of the family took vitamins at the dinner table, but the food was pretty terrible.

The hippies back then are what we now see as the homeless, and this town is full of them. They scavenge through the dumpsters and garbage cans for food, even though they can get two free meals a day at the local missions. One church group even brings soup to Market Square for any and everybody to take free of charge. This backward town which starred a bear killer, an animal abuser, and a drughead to perform before 3,000 people (parents such as Denice had with their young children in tow) take good care of the homeless from who knows where. While the girls' father and mother go through their bedrooms searching for drugs, it defeats their strict discipline when we see them hosting a rauncous party of adults playing "Charades" in a gross, adult scene of drunken participants. Their drug is liquor (and sleeping pills) and thus the lavish lifestyle is deceiving. They could live down in Podunk Florida or Branson, Missouri, wherever the wine flows freely. I thought this would be about the Age of Aquarius; instead, it shows clearly how parents can force their young teenagers to leave home to seek some freedom of choices. Soon, they will be grownups and certainly don't want to be like their unrelenting, uncompromizing parents. It's a shame to have to see this on the screen to realize how some kids had no choice but to leave home. I left home when I was 17.

4 out of 5 stars I had no idea this was a made for tv movie.......2006-08-30

I saw this in 1981 at the age of 13. I was starting to show a more rebellious nature according to my parents, and I just wanted to see what this was about. It was to me about wanting to have acceptance, and hsve a relationship. Sally returns from hanging around with the hippies, and finds herself ridiculed by her parents as she wants to bury the hatchet for running away like she did, and her sister now wants to do the same thing, and in the middle of all this is Sally's character waiting for her love to come, and get her, but imagine her surprise when he's working as an ice cream man, and her sister runs away. I found this movie looking back after 25 years of watching it was about the fact that parents and children don't really know how to talk to one another. Parents seem to want to dominate thier children, and not allow them too many outside influences. I know with me all I did was read a lousy book about Bob Dylan, and I was branded a rebel. I also feel that children don't know how to talk to their parents either as there's a lack of respect, and also mistrust. I'm not saying that parents are not to be trusted with a child's feelings, but that sometimes in their quest to know and grow in the world they will look at outside forces because it's going to be inevitable. When I was reading about Bob Dylan it was because it was a name that was stuck in my brain from childhood, and I wanted to know why. I had no interest in his music, or anything like that, but my father threw down the gauntlet by making him look bad, and weird, and to me that was enough to feul my interest even more, and yes I did listen to his music. Do I thank him for wetting my appetite more for knowledge, or do I look upon him in pity because he wasn't comfortable with himself to be open to the fact I was interested, and just acknowledge this. I have to remember that my son's growing up, and there's going to be times when he listens to weird music, or watches weird movies, or wants to read about people that I may feel not pleasant about, but I have to remember that it's better to just allow the interest, and not provide any feedback unless there's a serious change in his behavior, and with me I read about Bob Dylan a month before I heard the first song from him. I found this to be a rather sad movie of a family that I'm sure tried to get along, but couldn't because of feelings of inadequcies that made them want to build a shell of armor that they could hide behind, and act tough. That's the way the world is, and to me that's the biggest crime of all. What's more sad is the ending as Sally's character is submitting to being like her mother, and is vacumning. I feel that if there was a heart to heart talk with the two women there may have been some healing, but alas there was none, and if this movie were to be remade I wonder how the ending would turn out?

1 out of 5 stars Corny and Stupid.......2004-09-30

This movie was corny,stupid and poorly made 30 years ago and today it's unwatchable. After fastforwarding thru most of this turkey, I put it back in its box and then threw the box in the garbage.

5 out of 5 stars Great part for Sally Field.......2004-08-05

One of the greatest telefilms ever made, from an era in which filmmakers were first sensing the possibilities of the form. Sally Field will break your heart as Denny, the young hippie girl who returns to her mom and dad and their ultra-square suburban lifestyle, after a year or so away from home exploring the complicated hippie life with a boyfriend, "Flack" (the young David Carradine). 40s and 50s screen star Eleanor Parker is super as the icy mother; she makes the most out of a difficult role, outdoing Mary Tyler Moore's part in ORDINARY PEOPLE and doing it ten years earlier, when it was a braver career choice. Jackie Cooper is all right as the Dad, but he and Carradine are no match for the female super acting power of Field and Parker.

It's not a big blockbuster sort of picture, but it is one that you'll take to your heart, and I wonder if Sally Field ever really topped her acting work in this movie. By all means get the DVD, and revel in a different time and place.

4 out of 5 stars Superior TV Movie.......2002-12-28

This made-for-tv movie was filmed at the time when Sally Field was trying to break out of her "Gidget" and "Flying Nun" roles. It is effective at showing what great dramatic work she would do in the future. One drawback about this DVD is it has no special features. Overall, this movie has an absorbing story about the conflict between parents and teenagers. If one can get past the dated '70's feel, it is a film worth watching.
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
  • Now We Know Where She Got "You Love Me, You Really Love Me"
  • I had no idea this was a made for tv movie
  • Corny and Stupid
  • Great part for Sally Field
  • Superior TV Movie
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
Starring: Sally Field , Eleanor Parker , Lane Bradbury , David Carradine , and Jackie Cooper
Director: Joseph Sargent
Manufacturer: United American Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Carradine, DavidCarradine, David | ( C ) | Actors & Actresses | Stores | DVD | Video
Cooper, JackieCooper, Jackie | ( C ) | Actors & Actresses | Stores | DVD | Video
Field, SallyField, Sally | ( F ) | Actors & Actresses | Stores | DVD | Video
Parker, EleanorParker, Eleanor | ( P ) | Actors & Actresses | Stores | DVD | Video
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  2. Born Innocent Born Innocent
  3. Kiss Me Goodbye Kiss Me Goodbye
  4. Gidget - The Complete Series Gidget - The Complete Series
  5. Norma Rae Norma Rae

ASIN: B000055XN2
Release Date: 2001-09-25

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Now We Know Where She Got "You Love Me, You Really Love Me".......2006-09-02

This must have been one of those avantgarde films of the Seventies to promote the hippie lifestyle. Drugs with a capital D is what it was all about, and the rebellion of children who are not trusted or shown respect by their disapproving parents. What appealed to me was the fact that Linda Ronstadt's songs (those I have never heard) were used at intervals to show how Denice really felt. Sally Field and the actress who played her younger sister both had little girl voices, and had never grown up -- due to the fact that the extremely strict parents had never let them grow, and so Denice decided to fly away to find herself in the hippie world. First, she had gone to Chicago, but finding no one substantial there, she ended up a year later out in L.A. where the beautiful people find their fixes.

The issue I found at the sale showed a beautiful Sally Field, as far from Gidget as possible, with a young David Carradine, rough around the edges. The street scene has a motorcycle formation which did not take place in the film. After she returned to the upscale home complete with swimming pool, the character played by Carradine first stole a pest control truck and then an ice cream truck to get to her parents' home. The younger sister hid her drugs in capsules which looked like real medicine. All of the family took vitamins at the dinner table, but the food was pretty terrible.

The hippies back then are what we now see as the homeless, and this town is full of them. They scavenge through the dumpsters and garbage cans for food, even though they can get two free meals a day at the local missions. One church group even brings soup to Market Square for any and everybody to take free of charge. This backward town which starred a bear killer, an animal abuser, and a drughead to perform before 3,000 people (parents such as Denice had with their young children in tow) take good care of the homeless from who knows where. While the girls' father and mother go through their bedrooms searching for drugs, it defeats their strict discipline when we see them hosting a rauncous party of adults playing "Charades" in a gross, adult scene of drunken participants. Their drug is liquor (and sleeping pills) and thus the lavish lifestyle is deceiving. They could live down in Podunk Florida or Branson, Missouri, wherever the wine flows freely. I thought this would be about the Age of Aquarius; instead, it shows clearly how parents can force their young teenagers to leave home to seek some freedom of choices. Soon, they will be grownups and certainly don't want to be like their unrelenting, uncompromizing parents. It's a shame to have to see this on the screen to realize how some kids had no choice but to leave home. I left home when I was 17.

4 out of 5 stars I had no idea this was a made for tv movie.......2006-08-30

I saw this in 1981 at the age of 13. I was starting to show a more rebellious nature according to my parents, and I just wanted to see what this was about. It was to me about wanting to have acceptance, and hsve a relationship. Sally returns from hanging around with the hippies, and finds herself ridiculed by her parents as she wants to bury the hatchet for running away like she did, and her sister now wants to do the same thing, and in the middle of all this is Sally's character waiting for her love to come, and get her, but imagine her surprise when he's working as an ice cream man, and her sister runs away. I found this movie looking back after 25 years of watching it was about the fact that parents and children don't really know how to talk to one another. Parents seem to want to dominate thier children, and not allow them too many outside influences. I know with me all I did was read a lousy book about Bob Dylan, and I was branded a rebel. I also feel that children don't know how to talk to their parents either as there's a lack of respect, and also mistrust. I'm not saying that parents are not to be trusted with a child's feelings, but that sometimes in their quest to know and grow in the world they will look at outside forces because it's going to be inevitable. When I was reading about Bob Dylan it was because it was a name that was stuck in my brain from childhood, and I wanted to know why. I had no interest in his music, or anything like that, but my father threw down the gauntlet by making him look bad, and weird, and to me that was enough to feul my interest even more, and yes I did listen to his music. Do I thank him for wetting my appetite more for knowledge, or do I look upon him in pity because he wasn't comfortable with himself to be open to the fact I was interested, and just acknowledge this. I have to remember that my son's growing up, and there's going to be times when he listens to weird music, or watches weird movies, or wants to read about people that I may feel not pleasant about, but I have to remember that it's better to just allow the interest, and not provide any feedback unless there's a serious change in his behavior, and with me I read about Bob Dylan a month before I heard the first song from him. I found this to be a rather sad movie of a family that I'm sure tried to get along, but couldn't because of feelings of inadequcies that made them want to build a shell of armor that they could hide behind, and act tough. That's the way the world is, and to me that's the biggest crime of all. What's more sad is the ending as Sally's character is submitting to being like her mother, and is vacumning. I feel that if there was a heart to heart talk with the two women there may have been some healing, but alas there was none, and if this movie were to be remade I wonder how the ending would turn out?

1 out of 5 stars Corny and Stupid.......2004-09-30

This movie was corny,stupid and poorly made 30 years ago and today it's unwatchable. After fastforwarding thru most of this turkey, I put it back in its box and then threw the box in the garbage.

5 out of 5 stars Great part for Sally Field.......2004-08-05

One of the greatest telefilms ever made, from an era in which filmmakers were first sensing the possibilities of the form. Sally Field will break your heart as Denny, the young hippie girl who returns to her mom and dad and their ultra-square suburban lifestyle, after a year or so away from home exploring the complicated hippie life with a boyfriend, "Flack" (the young David Carradine). 40s and 50s screen star Eleanor Parker is super as the icy mother; she makes the most out of a difficult role, outdoing Mary Tyler Moore's part in ORDINARY PEOPLE and doing it ten years earlier, when it was a braver career choice. Jackie Cooper is all right as the Dad, but he and Carradine are no match for the female super acting power of Field and Parker.

It's not a big blockbuster sort of picture, but it is one that you'll take to your heart, and I wonder if Sally Field ever really topped her acting work in this movie. By all means get the DVD, and revel in a different time and place.

4 out of 5 stars Superior TV Movie.......2002-12-28

This made-for-tv movie was filmed at the time when Sally Field was trying to break out of her "Gidget" and "Flying Nun" roles. It is effective at showing what great dramatic work she would do in the future. One drawback about this DVD is it has no special features. Overall, this movie has an absorbing story about the conflict between parents and teenagers. If one can get past the dated '70's feel, it is a film worth watching.
Maybe I'll Come Home In  the Spring
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    Maybe I'll Come Home In the Spring

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    Release Date: 2007-05-15

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    Dennie has returned from a year among the hippies to her superficial, image-conscious suburban family. She must face their disapproval of her actions. They refuse to even try to understand. She must also deal with an ex-lover, and a beloved young sister who is following in her footsteps, wanting the idealistic hippie life but making some rash decisions in the process.
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      Maybe I'll Come Home In The Spring / Ginger In The Morning
      Starring: Sallie Field; Sissy Spacek
      Director: Multi
      Manufacturer: Miracle Pictures
      ProductGroup: DVD
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      ASIN: B0006B3Y9M
      Release Date: 2005-05-05

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        Children Of The Night / Maybe I'll Come Home In The Spring
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        Manufacturer: Dollar Entertainment
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        Release Date: 2005-03-22
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          Lady & the Highwayman / Choices / Love Is Forever / Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring / Home Town Story / Last of the Belles / Cape Town Affair / Final Goal / Callie & Son [9 DVD Package]

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