Stupendous!!!

This miniseries is by far the best movie I have ever seen--and I've seen thousands! The acting, writing, directing, music, and design are all perfect. It touched me so deeply--because I could relate to many aspects of the story--that I thought about it for days. It never lost its believability and drew me deeper and deeper into its vortex of romantic suspense. Megee's self-sacrifice--placing Ralph's career above her own needs and desires--was so admirable. And her unfliching faithfulness to him despite her lonliness, if not emptiness, was even more divine than the faithfulness Ralph professed to God. She becomes a true heroine but in a different way, an inner way, than we usually think of heroines.

A truly great, memorable, monumental achievement--one that many persons on many levels can and will appreciate for many years to come. I will never sell my copy--so much pleasure has it given me!--and I will probably watch it at least once a year. If you haven't yet seen it, please do--and discover an experience unlike any you have ever had in movie-going!

And Oh yes, make sure you've got a good supply of tissues, instead of popcorn, at your side--you'll really need them! As I end this, I can still hear that haunting, lilting, heart-wrenching musical theme weaving in and out of my mind, and Megee's last speech to Father Ralph--a secret she hid for so long to protect him from leaving the calling he loved so well.

Wow!

Breathtaking

This miniseries was one of the formative memories of my adolescence--I remember watching it at 14, absorbed in the story and entranced by Meggie and Ralph. I watched it again as a 34th-birthday present to myself, and it was as moving a story as I remembered. Beautiful!

Very Good

This movie was a truly great one. I have read the book and I feel that it was great also. I believe one of the reasons why it doesn't go into detail about Justine and Dane's relationship as much as a few people of liked or that there wasn't anything that showed the relationship between Patsy and Jims is because the movie is so long without it. It's around 10 hours long. I think it showed the closeness between Justine and Dane quite well just some people didn't pay attention! Probably just thinking about something to complain about. I for one think that the actors did a great job and sound not too much like they were American. Give them a break.