Along for the Ride (2000) from Johnny Web (Uncle Scoopy; Greg Wroblewski) and Tuna

This movie, also known as Forever Lulu,  is not good, not good at all. It intends to manipulate your emotions in scene after scene of weepy-ass contrivance.

• Mel and Swayze have a special psychic connection after all these years. Before her escape, we see them watching "The Hustler" together from separate locations, both of them mouthing the dialogue.

• Swayze and his wife had their own child, who died, and they talk about it constantly, although the script tells us that neither of them can bear to talk about it

• They end up having a tearful meeting with their son, accompanied by Swayze's wife, and they all become just a little wiser, darn it.

• When they return to the town where they used to live (Madison, Wisconsin), "The Hustler" is playing (still? again?) at the same theater where it was playing when they saw it together so long ago.

• Swayze ends up giving up his empty existence as a TV writer and returns to his original intention of writing the Great American Novel.

• Be prepared for a heart-warming and heartstring-tugging resolution to every possible plot thread.

Unfortunately, my heart was only warmed to about 106 degrees. I actually had to watch a few episodes of The Waltons and Lassie after this movie to warm my heart back up to the desired temperature.

The writer/director has been a writer on the Hollywood scene for about thirty years, but I should warn you that he'd never directed before, and this is the first script he's had produced in 20 years. And the last one was Where the Buffalo Roam

Tuna's comments in yellow:

To her credit, Melanie did a good job with her own character in this poorly written film. She has fooled me over the years. I once thought that she would be a Carol Wayne or Jennifer Tilly type, and would spend her entire career in bimbo roles because of her Minnie Mouse voice, but she has actually used that voice effectively in a wide range of roles, to show that those first impressions can be deceptive. Bravo for her.

Can't say much for her script judgment, however. 

Along for the Ride. (2000), which IMDB calls Forever Lulu, stars Melanie Griffith, who does a great job with a strange character and a terrible plot. 

Melanie has spent the last 16 years in and out of mental hospitals. She escapes, and contacts former boyfriend Patrick Swayze, informing him that they have a 16 year old son. Griffith talks him into driving cross country to meet the boy. Swayze's wife, Penelope Ann Miller, a shrink, flies to Wisconsin to get even, or protect her marriage, it is not clear which. 

Never could tell what the genre was. We see a body double full frontal from a distance, a stunt double in bra and panties, and cleavage from Griffith.