The Promise (Face of a Stranger) (1979) - Rotten Tomatoes

The Promise (Face of a Stranger) (1979)

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AUDIENCE SCORE

62%

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Movie Info

A rich student's fiancee has her face destroyed by a car accident, and refuses to return to him fearing the loss of his love.
  • Rating:
    PG
  • Genre:
    Drama, Romance
  • Directed By:
    Gilbert Cates
  • In Theaters:
     wide
  • On Disc/Streaming:
  • Runtime:

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Cast

Kathleen Quinlan
Stephen Collins
Beatrice Straight
Laurence Luckinbill
William Prince
Michael O'Hare
Bibi Besch
Katherine de Hetre
Paul Ryan
Robin Gammell
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Audience Reviews for The Promise (Face of a Stranger)

There is a lot of honesty and truth in what it wants to say, especially in the way it avoids making Marion a one-dimensional villain; even so, the result is only a passable yet sappy love story with good performances but inevitably weakened by its corny dialogue.

Carlos Magalhães
Carlos Magalhães

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Young couple in love, his mother objects. They suffer a horrendous car accident during which her face is destroyed, his mother pays her off with reconstructive surgery. She emerges looking...remarkably similar? He doesn't notice when they met. Uh right. Gooey nonsense at least has nice San Francisco locations and decent actors working with a silly script.

jay nixon
jay nixon

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