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Release Date:
31 January 1992 (USA) morePlot:
A man who doesn't like stable work environments has been away for too many years, and finds out his wife has divorced him and is planning to remarry... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
What movie did these other people see? moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Sissy Spacek | ... | Christine Ann Coalter |
 | William Petersen | ... | Joey (as William L. Petersen) |
 | Brian Kerwin | ... | Walt |
 | Mare Winningham | ... | Dawn |
| Jeff Perry | ... | Pinky |
 | Olivia Burnette | ... | Beth |
 | Peter MacNicol | ... | Stuart |
| Ann Wedgeworth | ... | Chris's Mom |
| Amy Wright | ... | Shelley |
 | Lois Smith | ... | Mrs. Bell |
| Dorothy Deavers | ... | Mrs. Bentson |
| Ed Geldart | ... | Mr. Bentson |
| Niles Williamson | ... | Howard |
| Lucy Childs | ... | Edna |
| Margaret Bowman | ... | Walt's Mom |
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One can always count on the IMDb - no matter how bad, how awful a film is, there will be four or five people who invariably give it ten stars and say it's a great film. I mean, I have yet to find the film listed where this does not happen.
Hard Promises does not have one laugh, one real moment, one near-touching scene (even the young daughter's scenes - and I'm a sucker for emotional scenes between parents and children) - the dialog is terrible, the film has not one iota of charm, the direction is blander than bland. The actors all do what they can, but there is nothing to do but work hard to try and make something out of nothing.
Of course, when one does a little further research, one finds that the film was universally panned by just about everyone, and, in its one week engagement at actual movie theaters, it became one of the lowest grossing films in history - a whopping $360,000 or thereabouts. Not many films achieve THAT kind of gross. Great film? No. Good film? No. Bad film? Yes. But, there are obviously four or five people for whom this worked - so, that's something.