The Stranger Who Looks Like Me

1974
6| 1h14m| en| More Info
Released: 06 March 1974 Released
Producted By: Filmways Television
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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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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Micitype Pretty Good
BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay
Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.
Patience Watson One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.
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?