Barbara Taylor Bradford's Love in Another Town(1997)

Maggie Sorrell (VICTORIA PRINCIPAL - Далас) has everything: beauty, adorable children, a wealthy Chicago lifestyle. Then her husband drops a bombshell which devastates her life: after 22 years of marriage, he’s leaving her for a younger woman. So Maggie quits big-city life to nurse her wounded heart in the sleepy little town of Deep Cove. But there she finds a startling new source of love and passion. He’s Jake Cardell (ADRIAN PASDAR - Печалба) a handsome photographer 12 years her junior. It’s not only age but also wealth and class that separate them, and theirs is a love affair destined to be rocked by scandal and tragedy. But could it be a love strong enough to survive?- YouTube

Source

Official Website

Directed by 

Lorraine Senna (She's also the director of Lois & Clark)

Writing Credits (WGA)  

Barbara Taylor Bradford (novel)

H. Haden Yelin (teleplay) (as H. Hayden Yelin)

Warning:  Twenty-one-year-old spoilers :-p

Barbara Taylor Bradford is a good writer.  She really knows how to stir emotions we never knew existed.  This TV movie, with her supervision, is close enough to what BTB wants the reader to imagine, but of course it's hard to put every minute detail in there, except perhaps if it were a mini series, but I'm glad they did not make it as such.

Mark(Terence Knox) felt like an asshole when he left his wife of twenty-two years on HER BIRTHDAY for a twenty-seven-year-old woman.  That's a double slap on her face.

Victoria Principal is a very beautiful woman, but there were scenes that did not capture her true beauty.  Even the photograph that was supposed to be filled with love when taken failed to do that.

She even looked younger than Finn Carter, the one who played Amy, Jake's estranged wife. Sorry Finn.  I'm not saying you are ugly or you look like a hag or something, and no offence to the hags.  I'm just pointing out, probably even if your character did not know it yet, you were already terminally ill that time, so maybe that's why you looked older than Victoria.

Adrian Pasdar is really a very good actor, if not great.  He was able to let me believe that he is Jake, and that he's so in love with Maggie, although at the beginning he looked more like a seducer than anything else.  He was really conflicted because Amy wouldn't give him the divorce when she thought she was healthy, and when he found out how sick she was, he did the right thing by taking care of her.

The kids...the twins, I mean...were already of age when their mom got pregnant again, but the boy acted like a baby.  Auntie Sam said, "It proves that girls mature faster than boys."  Maybe BTB was also trying to show how chauvinistic men are by making Peter side with their dad.  Hannah said her dad's mistress was irrelevant to her, but Peter wondered what his dad would think, even if he betrayed her first. I dunno.  Is that what you were trying to convey, Ms. Barbara Taylor Bradford? Or was Auntie Sam trying to remind Maggie something? To rub it in that her being twelve years older is kind of cougar like?  Nah.  She loves Maggie so much to imply that.

The baby they chose to act as Baby Sam was a very good actor.  I know they usually get twins, but there were scenes there that were obviously not spliced.  The baby was so responsive, like he's really Jake and Maggie's son.

Well, I am about to give EVERYTHING away, so I better stop now.

Thanks a bunch for your time.

:-)