The Good Mother

Anna Dunlap (Diane Keaton) is a divorced mother living is Boston with her 6-year-old daughter Molly (Asia Viera). She supports herself and her daughter by working part time in a lab and teaching piano. Her ex-husband Brian (James Naughton) is a Washington lawyer who has since remarried. Anna meets Leo Cutter (Liam Neeson) and she and the Irish sculptor begin a torrid and passionate love affair. Molly walks in while the two are making love and lies down to sleep next to her mother, oblivious of their act of intimacy. Molly innocently relates the incident to Brian, and the livid lawyer sues for custody of the little girl. An ugly courtroom battle begins, with Leo being accused of molestation of a minor and Anna branded as an amoral, unfit mother. Her attorney Muth (Jason Robards) levels with Anna and tells her she must choose between Molly and her lover. Directed by Leonard Nimoy, this powerful drama is taken from the best-selling novel by Sue Miller., A divorced woman who is devoted to her daughter faces a determined attempt by her ex-husband to gain custody of the child, who he feels is being corrupted by her mother’s open attitude to love, sex and relationships., Single mother Anna is forced to fight for custody of her little girl when her ex-husband accuses her new boyfriend of inappropriate behaviour towards the child., Moving story in which Anna, a divorced mother, falls in love with a sculptor, only to have her happiness shattered when her ex-husband, Brian, sues her for custody of their child on the grounds that her new lifestyle means she is no longer a proper guardian. Brian goes on to accuse the sculptor of sexually abusing the child. Anna’s lawyer tells her she can only win the case by ditching her lover, and she is forced to make a choice., Story of a divorcée (Diane Keaton) whose relationship with her boyfriend (Liam Neeson) provokes a custody battle over her 6-year-old. Jason Robards, Ralph Bellamy, Teresa Wright. Brian: James Naughton. Kolly: Asia Vieira. Based on a novel by Sue Miller.