The premise of Country Justice (also titled Family Rescue) is easy enough to predict, but the second half completely derails and takes you on a wild wide. At the start, young mother Ally Sheedy abandons her daughter so she can live a more reckless and selfish life. She leaves her baby with her father, George C. Scott, and takes off. Fifteen years later, Rachael Leigh Cook is curious about her mother, even though she loves and respects her grandfather. On a whim, she buys a bus ticket and leaves George a note, but when Ally isn't glad to see her, she's very disheartened. Ally's boyfriend, Don Diamont, is very attentive to Rachael - too attentive. So, yes, it's easy to guess what happens next.
Parts of Country Justice have the potential to really affect the audience, but most of it felt like a cheap tv movie - which happened to get George C. Scott to play the lead. I liked him as the steady grandfather who puts his family first no matter the cost, and it was interesting to see Mary Anne from The Babysitter's Club going through such a dramatic ordeal. But much of the plot was very far fetched. You're going to have to really be in the mood for a melodramatic tv flick to get engrossed in this one.
Kiddy Warning: Obviously, you have control over your own children. It doesn't go into detail, but there is a rape scene involving a teenager, so I wouldn't let my kids watch it.
