Spring Thaw

Spring Thaw

90 mins | Drama, TV Movie | Jan. 10, 2007

Katelyn 'Kate' Weston, a country girl who became a lawyer and joined an L.A. law firm years ago, specializes in defending minors having committed violent crimes who nobody else takes on. She gradually got estranged from her family, but then her older brother Ryan asks her to return to the farm he runs with their dad Thane who has become impossibly absentminded. By the time he is formally diagnosed with serious Alzheimer, she realizes how badly she really knew her family, having ran from her past after the trauma of witnessing her mother's suicide at age seven, and tries to talk it trough with Ryan and dad while he still has lucid moments.

Spring Thaw

90 mins | Drama, TV Movie | Jan. 10, 2007

Spring Thaw
Katelyn 'Kate' Weston, a country girl who became a lawyer and joined an L.A. law firm years ago, specializes in defending minors having committed violent crimes who nobody else takes on. She gradually got estranged from her family, but then her older brother Ryan asks her to return to the farm he runs with their dad Thane who has become impossibly absentminded. By the time he is formally diagnosed with serious Alzheimer, she realizes how badly she really knew her family, having ran from her past after the trauma of witnessing her mother's suicide at age seven, and tries to talk it trough with Ryan and dad while he still has lucid moments.
IMDb rating 6.0
Producers
Original title Sacrifices of the Heart
Directors David S. Cass Sr.
Writers Patti Davis

Cast

Melissa Gilbert

as Kate Weston / Anne Weston

Cyril O'Reilly

as Ryan Weston

Ken Howard

as Thane Weston

Terry Maratos

as David

David Starzyk

as Adam Leventhall

Chase Wilmot

as Young Kate

Scott Atkinson

as Young Thane

Blake Lindsley

as Laura

Christopher Murray

as Kevin Doyle

Lisa Pelikan

as Virginia Doyle

Braeden Lemasters

as Young Ryan

Amy Halloran

as Allison Doyle

Dennis Howard

as Sam Mendelson

Kevin Cooney

as Dr. Osborne

Fitz Houston

as Prosecutor

Andre Ware

as Jury Foreman

Bob Rumnock

as Clyde Foster

Cynthia Adkisson

as Baseball Girl (uncredited)

Bryan Becker

as Greg Hanes (uncredited)