Multichannel News, February 25th, 2002
The efforts of the actors, writers and director to maintain the essence of Joyce Carol Oates's original novel in Lifetime's version of We Were the Mulvaneys, were, for the most part, successful, but the result is similar to the difference between cologne and fine perfume.
The characters are all there: the parents, Mike and Corrine Mulvaney (Beau Bridges and Blythe Danner) and their four children. But the constraints of the TV movie form means that to retain as many life episodes from the novel as possible, the tale rushes by like a speeding train. One wonders if viewers who have not read th...
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