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Losing Chase
- Director: Kevin Bacon
- Writer: Anne Meredith
- Producer: Milton Justice; Anne Meredith
CGiii Comment
The writing is bloody awful.
Helen Mirren has a nervous breakdown, in walks the home-help and all sorts of lesbian arousals start to happen.
The character arcs are extreme and bizarre...Bacon's direction is typical TV - unimaginative and sluggish.
A Hallmark production that, excruciatingly, plays it safe.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Chase (Mirren), a lifetime resident of Martha's Vineyard, married Richard (Bridges), and like the area, grew into the Upper-Middle-Class. Her distaste for artificiality leads her to a wild breakdown, and Richard dutifully tries to restore their family unit as best he knows how by hiring a 'Mother's Helper', Elizabeth (Sedgwick). Chase is broken, and wickedly caustic towards Elizabeth, until they discover each other's similarities. A strong relationship develops, affecting their personal and familial salvation, and destruction.
Cast & Characters
Helen Mirren as Chase Phillips;
Kyra Sedgwick as Elizabeth Cole;
Beau Bridges as Mr. Richard Phillips;
Michael Yarmush as Little Richard Phillips;
Lucas Denton as Jason Phillips;
Elva Mai Hoover as Margaret Thompson;
Nancy Beatty as Cynthia Porter;
Rino Romano as Bartender;
Simon Reynolds as Instructor;
B.J. McLellan as Winston;
Bunty Webb as Housekeeper;
Kate Hennig as Katherine;
Cheryl Swarts as Nurse;
Ron Gabriel as Jack