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Night Ride Home ★★½ 1999

Nora Mahler (DeMornay) loves running the family ranch with her teenaged children Clea (Birch) and Simon (Brower) and her somewhat indifferent husband, Neil (Carradine). Then Simon is killed in a riding accident and Nora falls apart. Neil thinks the family needs to make a fresh start but Nora's too shattered to make decisions until her mother, Maggie (Burstyn), comes to visit and help her daughter cope with the family's tragedy—and failing marriage. 94m/C VHS . Rebecca De Mornay, Keith Carradine, Ellen Burstyn, Thora Birch, Lynne Thigpen, Jordan Brower; D: Glenn Jordan. TV

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