Doing Time on Maple Drive

Doing Time on Maple Drive

DVD cover
Genre Drama
Written by James Duff
Directed by Ken Olin
Starring James Sikking
Bibi Besch
William McNamara
Jayne Brook
David Byron
with Lori Loughlin
and Jim Carrey
Theme music composer Laura Karpman
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
Production
Producer(s) Wayne Hanks (producer)
Paul Lussier (producer)
Gina Scheerer (supervising producer)
Cinematography Bing Sokolsky
Editor(s) Elba Sanchez-Short
Running time 92 min.
Production company(s) FNM Films
Distributor Fox Broadcasting Company
Release
Original network Fox Broadcasting Company
Original release March 16, 1992

Doing Time on Maple Drive is a 1992 drama television film. Written by James Duff and directed by Ken Olin, the film stars James Sikking, Bibi Besch, William McNamara, Jayne Brook, David Byron, Lori Loughlin and Jim Carrey. The tagline promoting the film was "They are living a lie called the Perfect American Family". It was shot entirely in Los Angeles.

Synopsis

Doing Time on Maple Drive centers on the Carter family. Phil (Sikking), the patriarch, is a successful local restaurateur, married for many years to Lisa (Besch). They have three grown children, Karen (Brook), Tim (Carrey) and Matt (McNamara). Karen is married to Tom (Byron), Tim works in his father's restaurant and Matt is a college student. Matt returns from college and introduces the family to his fiancée, Allison (Loughlin).

Matt is injured after crashing his car; he returns home to recuperate. As he recovers, the family is revealed to be almost completely dysfunctional. Tim is an alcoholic. Matt's car crash was a suicide attempt brought on by the pressure of being gay and closeted from his conservative parents and lying about Allison's breaking their engagement because of it. Lisa is in deep denial about all of the problems family members are facing.

Karen's husband Tom learns that Karen is pregnant and that she is so terrified of bringing a child into a family situation like hers that she's considering having an abortion without telling him. Tom angrily confronts his father-in-law Phil, declaring that while Phil may be destroying his own family he won't allow Phil to destroy his. Tom implores Karen not to have the abortion and moves away with her for the baby's sake to get them away from Phil's problems. Matt confronts his parents, including telling his mother that he knows she already knows he is gay after having walked in on him and another boy. Lisa continues to struggle with denial, but Phil begins to take tentative steps toward understanding and building bridges with his family.

Cast

Awards and nominations[1]

Primetime Emmy Awards 1992

Nominated

Online Film & Television Association 2013

Won

Reception

Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an audience score of 67%.

DVD release

Doing Time on Maple Drive was released on Region 1 DVD on September 7, 2004.

References

  1. "Awards&Nominations". imdb. Retrieved 4th July 2016
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