The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay

A reclusive handyman is reunited with the estranged daughter he left behind years before, and embarks on the task of repairing their fragile relationship., 17-year-old Alison is on a mission to try and find the father who abandoned her family when she was 5, try to understand the past, and reestablish a relationship with the family stranger she has never forgotten., A teenager (Kristen Bell) visits Phoenix to bond with her wayward, hard-drinking father (Tim Matheson), but is stymied until his colorful neighbors provide moral support., Seventeen-year-old Alison (Kristen Bell) has not seen her father Al (Tim Matheson) since he abandoned both her and her mother a decade ago. In this adaptation of the novel by Michael De Guzman, father and daughter are reunited in a small Arizona town. Also starring Sean Young and Edward Asner., With a bus ticket in hand and Flagstaff, Arizona as her destination, 17-year-old Alison is on a mission: to find the father who abandoned her family when she was five years old, try to understand the past, and reestablish a relationship with the family stranger she has never forgotten., Filmed on location in Lake Havasu, AZ, this made-for-cable domestic drama stars Tim Matheson as Al Dodge, a burned-out intellectual working as a handyman and living in a rundown trailer in the middle of the Arizona desert. Some 15 years earlier, Al had abandoned his family and is now living the life of a truculent recluse. All this may change — or may not — when Al is visited by Alison (Kristen Bell), his long-estranged teenaged daughter. Doing their best to mend the fences between father and daughter are Al’s current girlfriend Sandy (Sean Young) and the requisite “crusty but lovable” widower Auggie Sinclair (Ed Asner). Adapted by Michael De Guzman from his own novel, The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay debuted on the Hallmark Channel on Father’s Day, June 15, 2003., Drama starring Kristen Bell. A teenage girl decided to spend her last summer before college getting to know her recluse father who abandoned her 15 years earlier., (2003, Drama) Starring Tim Matheson, Sean Young and Edward Asner. Directed by Sam Pillsbury. A college girl decides to get to know her estranged father before she begins her education, but his life turns out to be nothing that she expected., Drama. A burned-out intellectual working as a handyman and living in a trailer in the Arizona desert is reunited with his estranged teenage daughter., A teenage girl decided to spend her last summer before college getting to know her recluse father who abandoned her 15 years earlier.