Gone But Not Forgotten

1/15/2024

This two-part television film was based on a Phillip Margolin novel, which has been deemed "better than this movie" in almost every film review I read. In New York state, Peter Lake's (Scott Glenn) wife and young daughter are murdered in a very jumbled opening half hour to the film. Fast forward ten years later, and Lake is now known as Martin Darius, a millionaire developer in Sacramento. Copycat crimes to the New York slayings pop up again, and women's rights lawyer Betsy (Brooke Shields) is now Darius' defense attorney, up against prosecutor Alan (Lou Diamond Phillips). What follows is a two hour thriller dragged out to almost three hours as women are kidnapped and killed, and THIS time, Darius swears he's innocent. The film takes the old adage "show, don't tell" and turns it on its