Back to You and Me (2005)
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Dr. Syd has a good practice in the big city but a bad day when her terminal patient finally passes away. Her surgeon boyfriend, who has been sarcastically nick named "Mr. Personality" and "Settle For" by Syd's best friend (Nurse Brenda), takes this opportunity to offer support and destroys it by telling Syd dying is part of life and she'd be a better doctor if she stayed more remote from her patients and, oh, by the way, "can I come over tonight"? He is surprised when she says "not tonight." Brenda tells Syd to get away for a few days and suggests Syd change her mind and go back to her small hometown for her school reunion. Brenda points out that since Syd hasn't been back since her father's funeral, she'll be the star of the reunion as a successful doctor who wears the same size as she did in high school. Since Syd hasn't talked to anyone in that village, not even her mother, in years, Syd is unprepared for the collision between her memories of the past and the truth she finds in the village of today.
When I watched this when this was first released I thought the movie was shot somewhere in the past, but since the handsome TIME TRAX star, DALE MIDKIFF and LISA HARTMAN of THE LISA HARTMAN SHOW were in their late forties that time, I said to myself, this couldn't be shot in the 1980s or 1990s. A few minutes later, I learned that BLOOMFIELD, the place where they both grew up in, was a sorta, kinda, time-warped place.
It was great thing I saw this again. I like that the antagonists are not really bad people and the fixable stuff were at the very least discussed.
The long and short of it: It's definitely not for the Big Screen, but the story and the acting are both good. The made for TV movie truly is not a waste of time.
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Director: David S. Cass Sr.
Writer: Tom Amundsen
The cast, also from imdb:
 | Lisa Hartman | Syd Ludwick (as Lisa Hartman Black) |
 | Dale Midkiff | Gus Martin |
 | Rue McClanahan | Helen Ludwick |
 | Barbara Niven | Connie Murray |
 | Jennifer Echols | Brenda |
 | Blake Woodruff | Jake Martin |
 | Larry Manetti | Nelson |
 | Joel McCrary | Ruben |
 | Don Harvey | Ed Jenkins |
 | Lisa Long | Pam Jenkins |
 | Ken Land | Dr. Tom |
 | Morrow Wilson | Stan |
 | Cissy Wellman | Carol |
 | Romy Rosemont | Cheryl |
 | Jill Jaress | Gretchen |
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