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Once in a Lifetime
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Once in a Lifetime

1994
Directed byMichael Miller
1h 36m

After losing her husband and baby daughter to a fire, Daphne Fields raises her deaf son while beginning a writing career. Hollywood loves her scripts, but her heart remains with her son Andrew, under the care of Headmaster Matthew Dane at an eastern boarding school. Daphne finally seems to have rediscovered love in her leading man. But an accident leaves her hospitalized, contemplating her life, fate and her best chance for love.

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Lindsay WagnerDaphne FieldsBarry BostwickDr. Matthew Dane
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Duncan Regehr
Justin Wakefield
Amy AquinoBarbera
Rex SmithJeffrey Fields
Darrell Thomas UtleyAndrew
Fran BennettDr. Liz Wells
Debra SullivanHarriet
Michael MitzHoward
Michael LaskinThe Pediatrician
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TV MovieDramaRomance
STATUSReleased
RATING
4.4

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