Although it's set in the early 1970s, the storyline of this melodramatic TV-movie drama has the ring of a 19th-century penny-dreadful. With painter husband Tim Guinee out of work, Mary-Louise Parker agrees to stay with his parents in small-town Wisconsin until their prospects improve. But, no sooner has she bumped into her old flame (who is now the sheriff) and Guinee has fallen for a lingerie store clerk, than father-in-law Tom Skerritt begins delivering brimstone diatribes reflecting his hypocritical belief in a vengeful God. The cast does a decent enough job, but too little is left to the imagination.