triple8 Wow, I saw this such a long time ago but did really enjoy it as I enjoy most of Rider's work. This is another "movie with a message". It was extremely well done, well acted and interesting movie. There was just one problem.SPOILER ALERT: The ending WAS pretty much a tease. I don't like when a movie teases you with something and then it never happens. Another IMDb reviewer wrote how bad this ending was and I agree-completely-it's to much a tease-you'll turn the movie off feeling cheated and since that's never a good way to be at the end of a flick I wouldn't rate this movie past a 6. I understand endings are not always as we, the audience would like them to be but there is a difference between endings that are necessary to the plot of the movie and endings that just seem contrived to cheat the viewer out of something they've waited for the whole film. Watch it if you haven't and you'll see what I mean.

labyrinth640 The movie is focused on the whole town of Clyde, Ohio, yet it's basically centered around Dinky. Dinky is a misfit, both at home (she's adopted) and school. Although most kids would not enjoy this and would want to keep their heads down, Dinky has her head up and is not afraid to admit that she's different. The town is going bonkers over the arrival of Roxy Charmichael, a person who went from a somebody in Clyde, to a somebody all across the world. You also get to see the life of Roxy's former love interest before she left Ohio, a man named Denton. Denton and Dinky form an interesting bond, she's obsessed with Roxy, he know literally everything about her. She becomes convinced that Roxy is her mom, due to what Denton tells her one day. All in all this movie is an original classic that let's the viewrs look into the life of nearly the whole town. Watch for Carla Gugino's cameo appearence at the very begining of the movie as young Roxy. The movie is basically saying, everybody wants to be somebody else, whether it's a famous person, or the kid next door, everybody wants to be somebody. This is a fine movie, so if you have nothing else to watch on t.v. and this is on, give it a shot.

Jaid1965 Thomas Wilson Brown as Gerald Howells made this movie. This under used actor lent a sweet sentiment to a good movie that was having trouble finding it's way. Go ahead, watch it again. But, this time watch Thomas Wilson Brown. It becomes a whole different movie.

Dave-196 Decided to watch "Welcome home, Roxy Carmichael". I had never seen it before and was swept away completely by it. I was almost in tears during to whole movie. The last ten minutes I couldn't hold back the tears anymore, just had to let them go. This movie touched me very deeply !