Let Me Call You Sweetheart (1997 TV Movie) User Reviews

Don't waste your time if you're expecting a competent mystery

[JaynaB · 5/10 · 16 January 2013]

Meredith Baxter is beautiful and classy as usual. Victor Garber was believable as the dedicated defence attorney. The rest of the cast ranged from marginally convincing to waste of screen space.

There were lots of choppy, dangling plot threads, and much lacking in character development. The other weaknesses included usual movie-world lack of professionalism on the part of just about all professionals, some TSTL moments, and the resolution came from pretty far afield with an extreme overreach that is typical of B-movies.

A sweet resolution of the minor romantic thread, which was not at all vital to the plot.

Amusing, but not in a good way

[JennieB · 14 February 2000]

Robin will either bug you or make you laugh. Just a warning. Victor Garber looks a bit too old to come across as the macho hero. The plot line is obvious, and leaves much out if you just read the book. Not something I would suggest for mystery lovers, although fun if you want to spend a movie making fun of those in it!

Why do they all look the same???

[Hawks_Girl · 14 December 2001]

MAYBE SOME THINGS IN THIS REVIEW MAY LOOK LIKE A SPOILER, BUT DON'T MIND THAT, OK??? It's so weird you know, all these TV-movies seem to look just the same. "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" was not bad, because the actors were fine. I've seen Meredith Baxter before (forgot the movie) and she was outstanding as Kerry McGrath, the caring mother and successful lawyer. The plot did it again: main character discovers something weird, uses her job to solve the thing, finds a partner who knows more about it, gets too involved, but then when you think it's gonna go wrong... yep, you know what I mean.

Victor Garber (let me be honest, he WAS the reason why I wanted to see the movie) doesn't look too old for the role of Geoffrey. Jeez, man, he looks 38 instead of the 48 years he was when the movie was made. Geoff Dorso is the kinda person we would all love and support. Good lawyer, good looks and good hearted. Finally, the bad guys are bad and don't seem to have any heart at all.

Nothing special, really, just another TV-movie with a WHAT-DO-YOU-THINK-end. Only Victorites -like me- will have enjoyed it.

Parts are weird good suspense though

[ctyankee1 · 31 May 2014]

Suzanne Reardon is murdered and her husband is in jail a long time mostly due to the testimony of her father.

Her father is a doctor that does plastic surgery. He seems to have weird feelings for his dead daughter. He has cloned other women with his daughter's face. I felt like he had a touch of incest.

He thought his daughter was the most beautiful, best woman in the world. He testified how bad her husband was.

The only person that thinks Mr Reardon is innocent is his lawyer that sticks by him. Kerry McGrath is a prosecutor in line for a judgeship. She talks to Reardon's lawyer and feels something did happen that this man should not be in jail. There is a lot of deals going on in the background with court employees and government officials. They all try to persuade her to let the case lie.

Her x-husband is defending some of the people involved in the death of Mrs Reardon but for other crimes and he tries to talk her out of re-opening the case. His young daughter is a target of criminals involved who want the case to stay closed.

I have to say the woman that plays the doctors daughter and other women supposedly the cloned women is ugly. She really does look like she had a face job. Her nose is too thin and her lips are too big like swollen even though the characters are saying she is beautiful. I don't think so.

I love that song "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" I remember my Uncle Frank playing it on his sax.

The end is a surprise when you find out what really happened and who was involved. It is also a nice ending.