Just watched the 1992 Michelle Pfeiffer/Dennis Haysbert drama "Love Field." Came across the VHS tape at Half Price Books.
This is a very well-made movie about race relations in the South, with the assassination of President Kennedy as a backdrop. Michelle Pfeiffer plays a Dallas housewife obsessed with the Kennedys who ends up going on the lam with an African-American man (Haysbert) and his daughter when their paths unexpectedly cross on a bus trip en route to the Kennedy funeral in D.C.
There are hints of an interracial romance between Pfeiffer and Haysbert, but it's very tame. The characters are nuanced and three-dimensional. Michelle Pfeiffer earned the Best Actress nomination for her performance; Haysbert should have been nominated as well. Wikipedia says Pfeiffer's character is based on writer Don Roos' own mother. No wonder the story's so believable.
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