Filmed on location in Lake Havasu, AZ, this made-for-cable domestic drama stars
Tim Matheson as Al Dodge, a burned-out intellectual working as a handyman and living in a rundown trailer in the middle of the Arizona desert. Some 15 years earlier, Al had abandoned his family and is now living the life of a truculent recluse. All this may change -- or may not -- when Al is visited by Alison (
Kristen Bell), his long-estranged teenaged daughter. Doing their best to mend the fences between father and daughter are Al's current girlfriend Sandy (
Sean Young) and the requisite "crusty but lovable" widower Auggie Sinclair (
Ed Asner). Adapted by
Michael De Guzman from his own novel,
The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay debuted on the Hallmark Channel on Father's Day, June 15, 2003. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide