by Hal Erickson
synopsis
Appearances began life as a 2-hour TV pilot film. A Midwestern family tries to carry on after the sudden death of the family's son. Everyone puts up a brave public front, but the artifice results in gradual erosion of family solidarity. Ernest Borgnine fares best as the clan's patriarch. Appearances never developed into a series, though it has been released to home video.
characteristics
- Death-in-family
- Death Of A Child
- In A Minor Key
- Struggle
- Suspicion
- Midwestern
- Middle-class
- Confession [criminal]
- Family
