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Three Wishes

1995

Drama / Family / Fantasy

11
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 13% · 15 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 52% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.1/10 10 3446 3.4K

baseball korean war (1950-53) drifter dog woman director

Plot summary

While Jane Holman is driving with her two sons, she accidentally runs into a drifter, Jack McCloud, who breaks his leg. Being responsible, Jane invites Jack, and his dog, to stay at her home until his leg has healed. Jack struggles to adapt their lifestyle, and finds himself loved by the family.

Director

Martha Coolidge Photo
Martha Coolidge

Top cast

Neal McDonough Photo
Neal McDonough as Policeman
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio Photo
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as Jeanne
Patrick Swayze Photo
Patrick Swayze as Jack
Colleen Camp Photo
Colleen Camp as Neighbor's Wife
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
1.04 GB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 55 min
Seeds 7
1.93 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 55 min
Seeds 12

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by vincentlynch-moonoi 7 / 10

Fantasy films are difficult

Reviewed by reblit 7 / 10

Good family film with an excellent message

This story of a young mother of two son's whose husband is missing and presumed dead in the Korean War touches your heart. Jeanne Holman (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio)hits a drifter, Jack McCloud (Patrick Swayze)with her car on the way to a picnic. Later she finds him sleeping on a bench with his leg in a cast and insists that he stay at her house until his leg is better. The two boys; Tommy (Joseph Mozzello) and Gunny (Seth Mumy) gradually come to care for Jack and Jack cares for the family.The lesson, "instead of wishing for things to make you happy; wish to be happy with what you have" is such an important truth in today's life but one that is difficult to remember when we all want what the neighbor has! The movie set - of brand new developments with thousands of houses exactly alike and looking very bare because trees have not had time to grow yet - is a nostalgic setting from that time in history.Patrick Swayze as Jack McCloud, is good in this part of a drifter who has stumbled into the life of Jeanne Holman right when she needed friendship, support and understanding. It seems that a lot of Swayze's characters have an elusive quality of melancholy, of an acceptance that there is something special between two people that can't be defined or captured;looked at closely; or held and kept safe like a firefly in a quart jar. Jack McCloud is one of these characters along with Jed Eckart (Red Dawn), Johnny Castle (Dirty Dancing), Sam Wheat (Ghost), Ms. Vida Boheme (To Wong Foo...), Ben Clifton (Forever Lulu /Along for the Ride), Max Lowe (City of Joy) and even Allan Quatermain (King Solomon's Mines). Swayze's character Jack Charles of Father Hood was open, brash, funny and most importantly - hopeful who learned to love his children. Donnie Darko's Jim Cunningham (Swayze) was a snake-oil salesman who under it all was really slime with real no depth of any kind being developed in that character.
Reviewed by mlaine-2 7 / 10

Its a dog...no its a plane...no its a drifter who suddenly appears injured by a car?

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