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Rated: R; Genres: Crime, Drama; With: Dwight Schultz and Pamela Reed

Basically a grittier version of a '30s melodrama in which the good girl gone bad (she did it for the kids, of course) makes a new life for herself while hiding the old one from her current husband. Trailer-park trash replaces seedy gangsters, au courant themes of abuse are played up, but everything else remains basically the same. Still, Pamela Reed is compelling throughout Woman with a Past, always breaking through the surface cliches of the scenario and getting to the real human truths. B-


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Posted May 27, 1994
 

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