Kate Nelligan was fast bidding to become the queen of screen anguish when she made this heartrending film. After the controversial TV movie 'Victims', in which she waged a lone battle to get a rapist convicted, she's out on her own again in this three-handkerchief drama as a mother whose six-year-old son disappears without trace in a short journey to school one morning. The subsequent drama is too strung-out, especially in the closing stages, when director Stanley Jaffe's treatment of the story robs it of some of its inherent tension. Still, Miss Nelligan holds it together, intelligently conveying a literate woman holding hard to her sanity and only giving way to pity when it doesn't matter. And the ending will make most viewers reach for at least one tissue to wipe away a tear.


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