Yesterday's
Children - 2000 - TV
Directed by Marcus Cole
Airdate: October 15, 2000 - CBS
Writing
credits (WGA)
Richard Leder
Emmy
Award WIN:
Yesterday's
Children • Song Title: "A Dream That Only I Can Know"
• CBS • Cosgrove-Meurer Productions, Inc. • Patrick
Williams, Composer/Lyricist • Performer, Jen Mahoney
Based
on: "Jenny
Cockell: Across Time and Death: a mother's search for her past life children"
(published in 1994), available at amazon.com
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Jenny Cockell
(Seymour), a happily married American architect, suddenly begins to experience
recurring dreams about a woman named Mary living in a small Irish town
with her four children and abusive husband. Soon after the dreams begin,
Jenny discovers that she is pregnant. As her pregnancy progresses, Jenny's
dreams turn into what seem to be personal recollections of the past. The
visions intensify so much that they enable her to draw a detailed map
of Mary's hometown.
Convinced that she is recalling her past life as Mary, Jenny tries to
persuade her husband, Doug (Brown), and her son that her dreams are actually
real memories. As her visions continue and become more detailed, Jenny
realizes that Mary lived in 1930 and that her children could still be
alive. Desperately needing answers about what she believes to be her life
as Mary, Jenny begins a zealous quest to find the children. Her phone
calls and letters are futile so, with the encouragement of her mother,
Margaret (Bloom), Jenny travels to Ireland to search for the children.
Memories easily guide Jenny to Mary's hometown and the pieces start to
fall into place. Jenny's detailed recollections lead her to Sonny (Cronyn),
Mary's eldest child, whose unique relationship with his mother has haunted
him as well.
While everyone struggles to accept what Jenny proves to be true, she must
learn how to make peace with the past and live in the present.
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