Callie & Son

1981

Drama

6
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 38%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 38% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.5/10 10 399 399

Plot summary

A fictional drama, covering a 30-year period, about a poverty-stricken teenager forced to give up her illegitimate son at birth, and the climb to wealth and power as the wife of a newspaper publisher who helps her locate her son, in whose future she becomes obsessed.

Director

Waris Hussein Photo
Waris Hussein

Top cast

Bill Morey Photo
Bill Morey as Horace Johnston
Henry G. Sanders Photo
Henry G. Sanders as Tanner
John Harkins Photo
John Harkins as Arthur Cotham
Michelle Pfeiffer Photo
Michelle Pfeiffer as Sue Lynn Bordeaux
720p.WEB
1.27 GB
896*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
2 hr 21 min
Seeds 13

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by 6 / 10

A Soap-Opera With the Saga of Callie Bordeaux

Callie (Lindsay Wagner) is a single mother who is forced to deliver her son for adoption. A few years later, she meets the millionaire and owner of an important newspaper, Randy (Jameson Parker), gets married with him and retrieves her son. The story is long and follows Callie and her son until he is a married man. This movie looks like a Mexican soap-opera, combining love, hate, betrayal, blackmail, birth, death, corruption etc. Unfortunately the end of the video I watched is damaged and it was not possible to watch the end of Callie's saga. Michelle Pfeiffer in the beginning of her career, a little fat and having a very rounded face, has an important participation as the vulgar wife of Callie's son. My vote is six.
Reviewed by 4 / 10

Not bad until....

....This film is really not that bad at all if purchased for a cheap price and if you don't expect too much from it. Lindsay Wagner puts in a fine performance and the story development/pace is fine until around the last quarter of the film when it falls apart into hokey melodrama. I wished they had just left off the whole murder subtext and wrapped it up at some point after her son grows up. The film felt like a mess because of the trial/murder twist and if it were somehow up to me, I would actually edit that whole part right out! Why do this? Because it needs to be tightened up with some good and selective editing. I feel it runs much too long and if somebody cleaned it up and lopped off that silly trial sequence, the whole film would improve considerably. Quite a few leads drop off with no resolution and the whole thing gets harder to believe as the story line goes for cheap camp value. Editing would help this film. Despite all this, it's still worth a look for Lindsay's fans!
Reviewed by 5 / 10

worth the dollar I paid for it

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