Product Details

• Actors: Sally Field, Eleanor Parker, Lane Bradbury, David Carradine, Jackie Cooper
• Directors: Joseph Sargent
• Writers: Bruce Feldman
• Producers: Joseph Sargent, Bruce Feldman, Charles W. Fries
• Format: Color, EP, Original recording reissued, NTSC
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Front Row Video, Inc
• VHS Release Date: May 22, 2001
• Run Time: 74 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005B7BH
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #401,849 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Sally Field stars as a teenage runaway who after a year of being in the hippie scene, returns home to her parents who had all but thrown her out. Her parents (Jackie Cooper and Eleanor Parker) do all they can to try to understand her, but they can't seem to overcome their judgmental attitude. Soon her younger sister (Lane Bradbury) also begins to experiment with drugs. Her parents react with the same blind rage that drove her older sister away a year ago. Can this family keep together despite the gneration gap?

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

48 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great part for Sally Field, August 5, 2004

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Kevin Killian (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Maybe I'll Come Home In The Spring (DVD)

One of the greatest telefilms ever made, from an era in which filmmakers were first sensing the possibilities of the form. Sally Field will break your heart as Denny, the young hippie girl who returns to her mom and dad and their ultra-square suburban lifestyle, after a year or so away from home exploring the complicated hippie life with a boyfriend, "Flack" (the young David Carradine). 40s and 50s screen star Eleanor Parker is super as the icy mother; she makes the most out of a difficult role, outdoing Mary Tyler Moore's part in ORDINARY PEOPLE and doing it ten years earlier, when it was a braver career choice. Jackie Cooper is all right as the Dad, but he and Carradine are no match for the female super acting power of Field and Parker.

It's not a big blockbuster sort of picture, but it is one that you'll take to your heart, and I wonder if Sally Field ever really topped her acting work in this movie. By all means get the DVD, and revel in a different time and place.

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Hits Home, June 11, 2000

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Joe Grych (Illinois) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Sally Field really wowed us when this first aired on television as a made-for-TV-movie of the week. It shows what happens to families when parents don't listen and watch what is really happening with their kids. Sally runs away, does drugs, and hangs out with the hippies (in very effective flashbacks). The depiction of thoughts with flashes of images and voice-over was innovative and genuine. The movie opens when she returns home and we (and she) begins to see the same thing begin to happen to her younger sister and she can't stop it. Sally's charactor has learned from her mistake and she tries to warn her sister as well as tries to warn her parents that they are making the same mistakes they did with her. It's a good movie with realistic portrayal of it's time period. I was a kid at the time and I understood it and this film was something that teens of this era were able to relate to. Most important--there is a lesson to be learned. Unfortunately, television always cuts out the songs to make this movie fit into it's time slot. Rent the video instead.

25 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Superior TV Movie, December 27, 2002

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Barbara K. (Freehold, NJ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring (DVD)

This made-for-tv movie was filmed at the time when Sally Field was trying to break out of her "Gidget" and "Flying Nun" roles. It is effective at showing what great dramatic work she would do in the future. One drawback about this DVD is it has no special features. Overall, this movie has an absorbing story about the conflict between parents and teenagers. If one can get past the dated '70's feel, it is a film worth watching.