Wildflower

Set in the rural South of the '30s, the made-for-cable film Wildflower is about a pair of teenaged siblings who become friends with an epileptic girl named Alice (Patricia Arquette), who has been forced to live in the barn behind her father's house because he believed her seizures were the work of ...more

It's not being too hard on Diane Keaton's Wildflower to call it the prototypical Lifetime flick. Comedians have come up with a pretty good definition of what that entails, and the story of a partly deaf epileptic locked in a shed by her wicked stepfather, then freed and educated by a neighborhood brother and sister, would certainly qualify. Adversity and uplift are fine ingredients for a chick-flick message movie, and at the time it aired in 1991, this kind of film might have helped cement the ...more