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July 23, 2002

The Spring

Sinister goings on in small town

Kyle MacLachlan and young son take a detour to a town where all is not as it seems. It gradually emerges that there is a spring that gives eternal life, and the townsfolk keep it secret from the rest of the world to avoid them being inundated by outsiders.

But as usual in films, there must be a downside. In this case, the people of the town have decided that when someone reaches 100 years of age they must stop drinking the water, and so will die. They actually age very rapidly, and can choose to have a public drowning ceremony instead to make their death less painful.

MacLachlan falls in love with a local woman (we find out she is aged 96 but looks about 25). He asks to stay ewith his son in the town for good as his wife and mother have both died, and he doesn't want to die and leave his son alone. He is accepted, but is asked to perform the drowning ceremony on a man he has made frineds with, but just can't do it, and escapes from the town never to return.

As TV movies go, this one is fairly good, if a bit ridiculous in its public drowning premise.

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Posted by se71 at July 23, 2002 02:24 PM

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