1) It's not Curt who got out of the truck and helped Mandy out, but in fact his sister who was sitting next to him.
2) The woman Mandy meet in the field is her aunt. Her mother gives the address to Curt. Indeed, you don't see her any other time in the movie.
3) Even though the movie was not based on a true story - That's the official line adopted by producer Robert A. Papazian - the plot of this made-for-TV movie would seem to be inspired by the exploits of the real-life Dr. Elizabeth Morgan.
This is her story and maybe the ending we missed in the movie:
Dr.Elizabeth Morgan, the Washington, D.C., plastic surgeon, spent two years in jail in the late 1980s rather than disclose the whereabouts of her young daughter and for defying a court order to allow her ex-husband to visit the girl.She claimed the girl's father sexually abused the child, though the allegations never were proved.
The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia is a victory for Dr. Eric Foretich, an oral surgeon who has maintained that he never hurt his daughter and that Congress wrongly took sides in the custody case.
Eventually, Hilary was located in New Zealand where she was hiding with her maternal grandparents.
Morgan, went to jail rather than allow Foretich the visits ordered by a District of Columbia Superior Court judge. A special act of Congress freed her in 1989 and the next year she joined her daughter.
A New Zealand court gave her sole custody but the visitation requirement by the U.S. court remained in effect, meaning that if Morgan returned to America she would still face a court order to allow her husband to see their daughter.
Hilary was allowed to remain in New Zealand only if Dr. Morgan stayed and surrendered Hilary's passport to the court. Dr. Foretich, thinking of Hilary's welfare and stability, refused to fight further.
Congress intervened again in 1996, passing the Elizabeth Morgan Act, which allowed the girl to decide whether to see her father. Foretich and his parents sued the government in 1997, challenging the law.
The appeals court declared the law unconstitutional because it applied only to Foretich.
2) The woman Mandy meet in the field is her aunt. Her mother gives the address to Curt. Indeed, you don't see her any other time in the movie.
3) Even though the movie was not based on a true story - That's the official line adopted by producer Robert A. Papazian - the plot of this made-for-TV movie would seem to be inspired by the exploits of the real-life Dr. Elizabeth Morgan.
This is her story and maybe the ending we missed in the movie:
Dr.Elizabeth Morgan, the Washington, D.C., plastic surgeon, spent two years in jail in the late 1980s rather than disclose the whereabouts of her young daughter and for defying a court order to allow her ex-husband to visit the girl.She claimed the girl's father sexually abused the child, though the allegations never were proved.
The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia is a victory for Dr. Eric Foretich, an oral surgeon who has maintained that he never hurt his daughter and that Congress wrongly took sides in the custody case.
Eventually, Hilary was located in New Zealand where she was hiding with her maternal grandparents.
Morgan, went to jail rather than allow Foretich the visits ordered by a District of Columbia Superior Court judge. A special act of Congress freed her in 1989 and the next year she joined her daughter.
A New Zealand court gave her sole custody but the visitation requirement by the U.S. court remained in effect, meaning that if Morgan returned to America she would still face a court order to allow her husband to see their daughter.
Hilary was allowed to remain in New Zealand only if Dr. Morgan stayed and surrendered Hilary's passport to the court. Dr. Foretich, thinking of Hilary's welfare and stability, refused to fight further.
Congress intervened again in 1996, passing the Elizabeth Morgan Act, which allowed the girl to decide whether to see her father. Foretich and his parents sued the government in 1997, challenging the law.
The appeals court declared the law unconstitutional because it applied only to Foretich.