Plot summary

A boy named Bobby arrives unexpectedly at his aunt Vicki's house. Vicki can tell by his eyes that he was abused. Bobby came to Vicki because the happiest memories of his childhood was with her. Vicki gives up her job as a big writer temporarily to help Bobby.

Reception

Brian Lowry, of Variety

Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American weekly entertainment-trade magazine founded in New York City, New York, in 1905 by Sime Silverman. With the rise of the importance of the motion-picture industry, Daily Variety, a daily edition based in Los Angeles, California, was founded by Silverman in 1933. In 1998, the...

said "Sensitively directed by Peter Levin, the script by Susanna Styron and Bridget Terry -- who last collaborated on Hallmark's lyrical "Back When We Were Grownups" -- is devoid of real surprises. Inevitably, Bobby's reclamation -- and its impact on Vicki's neatly ordered world -- will surely have its own rewards, culminating in the by-now familiar notion that family is what you make of it." Rob Hedalt, of Fredricksburg, said " Two things make the latest Hallmark film special: the fact that the hero is played by the superb actress Marcia Gay Harden. And the fact that her character, in many ways, is just as flawed as the nephew she tries to save." The film was reviewed by Chicago Tribune.