The Stranger Who Looks Like Me

1974
6| 1h14m| en
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A young woman searching for her birth parents in order to fulfill her sense of identity joins with an organization that fights the bureaucracy keeping adoption records sealed.

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Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Konterr Brilliant and touching
Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.
Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
GUENOT PHILIPPE The first hour of this TV movie is very interesting, especially the long discussion among people in search of their biological parents and the different points of view between each of them. You have the feeling to watch a documentary. This is the pure TV movie scheme, a search for biological parents. But the true amazing, terrific sequence is the final one, when SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS the female lead finally meets her mother. Oh god, it's an unforgettable scene, when the two females meet. So poignant, I almost cried, wept. I love this TV film. I guess many features exist about this topic. I am very proud to have watched it.
WillEd When looking up this movie to answer an inquiry, I was surprised to see it had no user reviews. This was certainly a better than average TV movie, was well publicized when released, had two well known actors in the leads, and was directed by Larry Pierce, the director of Goodbye Columbus, the movie that introduced Ali MacGraw and had her best performance (a lot of us thought she could act based on it until Love Story proved us wrong. Meredith Baxter is a young woman with adopted parents who is searching for her actual parents. Beau Bridges is a young man she becomes involved with on an identical quest. Whitney Baxter, the mom on the TV sitcom Hazel and Meredith's actual mother, makes a brief but important appearance at the movie's climax.I haven't seen it since, but was pretty impressed at the time, no world beater, but nicely acted, written, and directed. What more do you want from a TV movie?