When I saw the 1992 film "Love Field" listed on the schedule for the Trio channel a few days ago, I vaguely remembered seeing a preview at the time of its release and expressing an interest in seeing it. For one reason or another, though, I never got around to it until Trio jogged my memory.

I'm glad I tuned in. "Love Field" is a nicely written story, and I'd recommend you catch it on TV, pay-per-view or at the video store. It's two hours well-spent.

Michelle Pfieffer plays a ditzy, Jackie-Kennedy-wannabe trapped in an awful marriage in Dallas in November of 1963. After the president is assassinated, she unconciously begins to question her life. She sets out on a bus trip to Washington to attend JFK's funeral and, on the way, meets a black man who has just rescued his long-lost daughter from abuse in a state shelter.

The man, portrayed by Dennis Haysbert, quickly finds himself ensnared in Pfieffer's life. What follows is a well-written love story involving two ordinary people struggling to make sense of extraordinary times.





Recommended: Yes