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Amnesia Minor 
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TITLE |
Finding the Way Home (1991) (TV Film) |
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Max (Scott)
runs a hardware business which is failing and |
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going into
debt apparently through his own incompetence and |
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reluctance
to change. Then he is told he has to upgrade the |
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building
which would cost a fortune. |
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Conveniently
the stress leads to amnesia which occurs has |
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he's driving
aimlessly around. At the point of discovering he |
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doesn't know
where he is or who he is he finds himself |
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among a
community of illegal Mexican (?) field workers. |
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Though they
have troubles of their own with hiring bosses and |
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immigration
officials they take him under their wing. And in |
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return he
brings his skills to help them. His repairing of a |
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toaster is
received as though he'd turned water into wine. He |
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also works
in the fields picking lettuce until it exhausts him. |
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This scene
must be to illustrate how hard the work is since he |
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is obviously
totally unsuitable for it. |
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The 'leader'
of the workers walks with a limp and uses a stick. |
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This
resulted from catching his leg in a wagon door when |
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travelling
as hobo two years before. He, Ruben, discovers |
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who Max is.
They take him back to his store but he turns |
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away from
it. (The fate of his wife is all this time ignored). |
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When husband
and wife eventually meet again she says their |
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marriage is
ended. But he gets the workers settled and |
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returns to
his wife and revives their relationship. Even the |
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business
gets back on its feet as Max and Arlene's |
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There's a
big message being touted here and amnesia is |
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simply the
means to end. In a real life case vaguely similiar to |
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this story
it was generally considered that the woman was |
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faking her
condition as a way of escaping her problems. |
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Scott may be
referred to as "legendary" in the film's blurb but |
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this is a
very weak performance. |
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From the
novel Mittelman's Hardware by George Raphael |
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Notes
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