Highly Overrated But Still Good

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

I noticed that one reviewer read the books of the author who came up with this story and they were very disappointed in the film. That is often the case--films usually do compare poorly to the movie versions. However, since I've never read anything by Zenna Henderson, the film was just fine to me...and I assume that if you haven't read the books you'll enjoy this unusual film.When the film begins, a young and eager new school teacher (Kim Darby) is excited to be going to a very isolated town out west to teach. However, it soon becomes apparent that this is no ordinary town...they are all a bunch of weirdos. It isn't that they are bad...but the way they react to her and things in general is very odd. They appear humorless and almost emotionless and it's not easy teaching kids who grow up in this strange cult-like environment. But, being an installment of "The ABC Movie of the Week", you KNOW it's got to have a weird secret...but I don't want to ruin the suspense so I'll say not more about the plot.The bottom line is that if you like fantasy or sci-fi, you'll likely enjoy this picture. I appreciated how the secret did NOT turn out to necessarily be a bad or malevolent thing and the film was very satisfying. Plus, it was nice to see Darby and William Shatner in this one as they both had previously acted together in the "Star Trek" episode, "Miri"...where Darby played a teenager infatuated with the dashing Captain.

I remember seeing this as a "Movie of the Week" the first time it came on... I haven't seen it since, so I recently ordered it just for the heck of it. I hope it gives me the same warm fuzzies as, "The Point" did... :-)

I stumbled upon this movie years ago, shortly after having read the book upon which it is based. Being a young kid then, with a crush on Kim Darby, I was just enchanted to see this movie. Of course seeing it again as an adult reveals it for what it is, a nice try that fell a bit short.

Okay, I admit, this is a pretty lame movie, and yet I still remember it and even bought the video several years ago for about $5. I made my boyfriend watch it with me and he laughed through the whole thing. I was offended! (Not really) The thing that always got me about this movie was the haunting quality of the people and their community. The music when the kids are floating in the glen, the pictures they draw of their home world. It just worked for me, but then I'm a sci-fi and fantasy nut, while my b/f is a business and computer guy!