This adaptation misses the mark on what the play is actually about. The teleplay writer has taken the angle of Chance as a romantic trying to reclaim his Heavenly. If you have read the Williams script or seen the play he is anything but. Heavenly is a plot device to put Chance into a situation that exposes his real self and leads him to accept it. It's a play about the fear of loss, aging, failure, and death, which doesn't make very good prime-time material. The script is pretty scrambled - some of Alexandra's lines were originally Chance's etc. The original play has no dialog between Heavenly and Chance. They also leave out the fact that Chance didn't just get Heavenly pregnant, he also gave her an STD (to be fair neither movie got into that.)
The performances are fine. Mark Harmon sells the character of Chance well - handsome, not too bright, and ambitious. Elizabeth Taylor looks gorgeous and puts forth a good performance, but it's uneven. This is much more to do with the script than her work.
The performances are fine. Mark Harmon sells the character of Chance well - handsome, not too bright, and ambitious. Elizabeth Taylor looks gorgeous and puts forth a good performance, but it's uneven. This is much more to do with the script than her work.