Karen Kingsbury’s ‘Someone Like You’ comes to GAF
Category: Television and Streaming
From the popular novel Someone Like You by bestselling author Karen Kingsbury come the beautiful movie about love and life. Keep some tissues nearby when you watch this.
Sarah Fisher is London Quinn, a fun-loving and fearless young woman living in Birmingham, Alabama. She works in her mother’s coffee shop, loves everyone, adores her dog and her best friend Dawson Gage (Jake Allyn) who is desperately in love with her.
When London is killed in an accident, Dawson is as devastated as her parents Louise and Larry (Lynne Collins and Scott Reeves). In their grief they discloses to Dawson that London was an IVF baby. When they went to have the embryo implanted they discovered there were two so they took one and instructed the clinic to offer the second embryo to another infertile couple.
The possibility that London has a sibling strikes at Dawson’t heart. He sets out to find this person, not knowing if it is a boy or girl. Tracking down the doctors and clinic is difficult, then tracking down the family that had the received the embryo is almost impossible but that doesn’t stop Dawson.
He locates Andi Allen (also played by Sarah Fisher) who lives with her parents Jenny and Jim (Robyn Lively and Bart Johnson) and sister Amy (Mary Marguerite Hall) in Nashville. When Dawson confronts Andi and informs her about the circumstances surrounding her birth, she is in disbelief. Her parents never told her.
In shock and not knowing what is what, Andi decides to go to Birmingham to meet her biological parents. Dawson is on hand to help her get to know who her sister was and the things and places she liked.
Everyone in Birmingham is stunned at the resemblance Andi has to London. After all, they are twins. As Andi gets acquainted with her birth parents, Dawson is right there to guide her through London’s life.
Andi is surprised when she learns Louise is very sick and in need of a kidney, which London was going to give. The accident came just before the surgery was to happen. Andi decides she wants to save Louise’s life and offers to donate one of her kidneys, if she is a match.
The confusion in Andi’s mind and heart sets her on a path to discover who she is. This is a heartfelt story of family, life and love.
Viewers might see the attraction growing between Dawson and Andi and wonder if he simply transferred his feeling for London to her twin sister. But he tells her in the beginning when he looked into her eyes he saw London, but that changed and now he sees Andi.
While there are deep emotional moments and the situation is itself emotional, threads of Christianity weave through the story. London was not a true believer in Church and religion but Dawson is, and so is Andi.
Andi must find it in her heart to forgive her parents for not telling her about her birth. She also has to come to terms with two sets of parents, although Louise assures her the family she knew is still her family and Jenny and Jim are still her parents. Maybe not genetically, but they did raise her and Jenny did carry her for nine months.
This is definitely an emotional and touching movie that is available to stream on Great American Family beginning February 22, 2025. To say it they packed a lot into this story is an understatement. It is a beautiful tapestry of happiness, sadness, life, family, and love.
For information about book clubs and bible studies, go to the Someone Like You website.
About the Author
Francine Brokaw has been covering all aspects of the entertainment industry for over 30 years. She also writes about products and travel. She has been published in national and international newspapers and magazines as well as Internet websites. She has written her own book, Beyond the Red Carpet The World of Entertainment Journalists, is the entertainment correspondent for Good Day Orange County, and has her own TV show, Beyond the Red Carpet, on Village Television in Orange County. She is a longstanding member of the Television Critics Association and is accredited by the MPAA.
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