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Danielle Steel is one of the best-selling authors of all-time, and now you can enjoy this box set featuring three movie adaptations of some of her best known novels.
Daddy (Dir. Michael Miller, 1991): Patrick Duffy and Linda Carter star in this highly emotional story of love, loss and rediscovered happiness.
Oliver is a top advertising executive who seems to have it all - a beautiful wife, three great children and a lovely home. But, one fateful day, his wife announces she is leaving home to become a mature student at a far away university. Her promise to return on weekends is quickly broken and Oliver must take on the role of both father and mother to his increasingly confused and resentful children.
Soon the family is falling to pieces. The kids blame Oliver for the eventual divorce and the eldest son, Benjamin, drops out of high school to set up home with his newly pregnant girlfriend. The painful death of his own mother is the final straw and a despairing Oliver agrees to take a new job in Los Angeles, hopefully leaving his heartbreak behind. There he meets, and falls in love with, a beautiful actress, but will his children ever allow Oliver to rebuild the romance and happiness he yearns for?
Fine Things (Dir. Tom Moore, 1990): Devoted to his work, but emotionally unfulfilled, Bernie achieves his romantic dream when he meets and eventually marries beautiful divorcee, Liz. Their new life together with her young daughter Jane is blissfully happy until Liz is fatally stricken with cancer soon after the birth of their son. Heartbroken, Bernie and eight-year old Jane struggle to come to terms with their tragic loss.
Suddenly out of the blue arrives Jane's natural father, an ex-convict. He demands money in exchange for giving up custody of Jane and eventually kidnaps her and flees to Mexico. Angry and desperate, Bernie tracks him down and brings the traumatised girl home, where they must both try and rediscover the 'Fine Things' in life.
Message From 'Nam (Dir. Paul Wendkos, 1993): In this compelling feature length movie from bestselling author Danielle Steel, Paxton Andrews, a young idealistic woman, faces love, loss and the harsh realities of war. Thrown into the radical 1960's campus life at Berkley, she believes she has found a true soulmate in a bright, idealistic law student called Peter. But when fate gets him drafted and killed in Vietnam, grief motivates Paxton to become a war correspondent for a San Francisco newspaper. In a career move that will eventually change her life, her attitudes, and her future she is transferred to Saigon.
Reporting the truths and tragedies of war through first-hand experiences, her column 'Messages From Nam' becomes an enormous success in America. But her personal relationships, including a passionate affair with an army captain, continue to suffer the casualties of combat. From front line fighting to the moral battle within her heart, Paxton uses hope and determination to survive the fall of Saigon.
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