This is
an obscure episode of an
obscure French/British TV
show that IMDb barely
mentions. It's a truly
sappy, underdeveloped 24
minutes of formulaic TV
melodrama. So why am I
writing about it? It
features a topless scene
from a very young (21ish)
Catherine Zeta Jones. This
show would be long
forgotten if not for that.
Oh, what am I talking
about? It IS long
forgotten, even with that.
The show is not even in
Zeta's IMDb filmography,
and the nude scene is not
in Mr Skin's collection.
A bit of trivia: according
to the credits, the series
was produced by Erich
Segal, the classics
professor who loved to
slum in pop culture, and
became most famous as the
author of Love Story.
How bad is the episode?
Follow along with me ...
A wealthy widower welcomes
his university-age
daughter and three of her
friends to his French
country estate during her
semester break. Dad and
daughter obviously have a
great relationship, and
dad also establishes a
good rapport with his
daughter's friend (Zeta)
and the boyfriends of the
two girls. They all visit
for a while, then the two
young couples head for the
Mediterranean in their two
separate cars, and dad
heads up to sleep.
Dad awakens to the sound
of sobbing in his bedroom.
It is Zeta-Jones,
reporting that the man's
daughter has died in an
automobile accident. Since
the daughter and her
boyfriend have been fried
to a crisp, there is
nothing dad can do. Since
Zeta's boyfriend is taking
care of the details with
the police, the dad does
what I think any of us
would have done on this
somber occasion - he fucks
the living daylights out
of Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Now THAT'S the way to
mourn.
The next morning he needs
a little more consolation,
but Zeta refuses, saying
that from now on she will
"love him in a different
way," which in this case
does not mean anal sex,
but rather that she will
"be his new daughter"!
The film ends with a group
hug between dad, Zeta, and
Zeta's boyfriend, who
looks mighty uncomfortable
about the entire thing as
the credits roll.
This show would be perfect
for a remake. Remakes are
usually worse than the
original, but this show
could not be any worse
unless Nic Cage plays the
bereaved father.
