- Two women who have almost nothing in common considering lifestyle, social position and education are getting closer in contact because of a sequence of personal tragedies.
- After the divorce from Michael, Tessa raises her daughters Kate and Laura alone. None of them can stand her ex-husband's new young wife Carolyn, a model. But then Tessa learns that she's suffering from cancer and soon will die. Now she tries to get her kids to accept Carolyn as new mother. She takes her with her on a trip across America to her father Jacob's ranch in Wyoming. She tries to teach Carolyn about the responsibilities involved in raising kids.—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
- This movie came out in 1995. The movie "Stepmom" came out in 1998. If you saw "Stepmom," you can see the stories are essentially the same. This made-for-TV-movie has more campy 1990's background music and the story line deviates from "Stepmom" in several different aspects but is clearly a remake of "The Other Woman" (1995).
The story is about the emotional impact on everyone involved in the breakup of a family as a result of divorce - the conflicting loyalties by the children toward their parents, their misdirected animosity toward the step-mother and the father trapped between the two worlds of his families, such as they are now.
A tragic diagnosis of a terminal disease for the mother presents a unique opportunity for healing fractured family dynamics that will forever be affected by loss.
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