i have read the novel of david leavitt which this movie be base on just before watch it . i have to say that the novel be great and very well write and full of sincere feeling . though and the movie be terrible . i can not say if it be because of be a tv movie and because it be make in the early 90 or just bad interpretation . the actor seem all the time to be wait for the other to give them line . the only scene i would save be when jerene and the guy be in the park . a scene that do not happen in the book . you do not need to have read the book to watch it a you will follow properly . though and there be some stuff that you will miss because you do not have the background explanation . all the story about their past be lose in the film . though and i would definitely recommend read the book before watch this so you will realise it be a very good story but a bad production . i wish i be a cinema director so i would do a new version . i give the maximum mark to this because i can not be fair with this . the book be extremely good .