Stacking Movie Review

In Stacking, Megan Follows, Christine Lahti, Frederic Forrest, Peter Coyote, and Jason Gedrick turn in remarkable performances, but this low-key film failed to find its proper audience. It's a shame because Victoria Jenkins’ wise, cliche-free screenplay reveals that she knows her rural characters through and through. Sensitively directed by Martin Rosen and shot by Richard Bowen, the film takes a great many chances with its material and succeeds most of the time. A decade later, most of the cast were earning their bread and butter on television. The gifted Follows, after a strong, prolific start between 1984 and 1991, all but faded from view, except in a one-shot Outer Limits episode or in endless encore airings of Anne of Green Gables/Anne of Avonlea. AKA: Season of Dreams.

1987 (PG) 95m/C Christine Lahti, Megan Follows, Frederic Forrest, Peter Coyote, Jason Gedrick; D: Martin Rosen; W: Victoria Jenkins; C: Richard Bowen, Paul Elliott, Richard Bowen; M: Patrick Gleeson. VHS, LV