"Daniel's Daughter"

I picked up the DVD, "Daniel's Daughter," starring Laura Leighton (of "Melrose Place") at the local library.  It was billed as a love story and I thought it would be a good date night movie.  Laura plays Katherine, a successful New York magazine editor, who is about to marry her wealthy boss in what is going to be one of the big society events of the year.  However, when her estranged father dies, his last request is for her to spread his ashes in her small Massachusetts home town.  She is still bitter about the fact that her father left her with relatives after her mother's death and she never saw him again so is reluctant to carry out his wishes.  When she decides to take some of her magazine's own advice, however, she finds herself heading off to carry out her father's request accompanied by her assistant but without informing her husband-to-be (who knows nothing about her family).  The trip home is more revealing than she expected and offers new possibilities for her life that she hadn't anticipated.  It is a warm, romantic movie but the frequent "pauses" made my spouse and myself wonder if it wasn't a made-for-tv movie and those pauses were for the commercials.  The pauses were very distracting from the story and left me wishing it had been redone for the DVD without them!  pazt