Streetwolf Review of Nothing Lasts Forever

Nothing Lasts Forever (1995 TV Movie)

Women living in men's world. SPOILERS

[6/10 · 9 August 2001]

Okay the casting is confusing at the beginning, but it gets easier later on. Paige(Gail O Grady), Beth (Brooke Shields) and Kat (Vanessa Williams) are 3 brilliant doctors each with a different life story. Paige is a compassionate woman, whose father died in a plane crash and she is one of the best surgeons around. Beth has a family of top doctors known all over USA and lives with the constant defeat of having to live up to her family name. She also has bad taste in men at the beginning,she then gets involved with Ben Wallace (Gregory Harrison) who is the hospital administrator and let's not forget he is a married man as well. Kat is a young beautiful Afro-American doctor, whose background includes violence in her family, which has led to several scars to her adult life. She gets involved with another doctor at the hospital named Ken Mallory. So life isn't hunky dory for them, but they do their best everyday and as time goes on their roles as doctors lead them in their own separate ways. Paige gets chosen to work under the best surgeon, Dr. Barker, but he is a pain and pushes Paige to the limit at every turn. She then gets a patient named John Cronin (Lloyd Bridges R.I.P)who is dying of cancer and is always in great pain. A bond between doctor patient slowly changes and becomes a good friendship, but when Cronin's medicine doesn't help anymore he turns to her to kill him in the name of mercy. Kat meets a young boy named Aaron, who is badly beaten by his father. She tries to help out, but fails and the second time she tries to help she gets involved in a car crash and later on dies. At the time of her death she is pregnant by her boyfriend Mallory, who doesn't want to be in the child's life, but after Kat's death he decides to step in. Beth tries to stand up to her father and Wallace is constantly trying to pretend that he is saving her and himself from humiliation now that Paige has been arrested for murder of John Cronin, apparently he was rich and his wife seems to have a problem with Paige getting some of Cronin's money. It's worth a watch, but it is quite confusing the first episode and the second episode was too fast. They were making a two-episode mini series, I think they should have made it a 3-episode mini series so that they could cover the parts that were important. Beth and Kat's lives aren't much of the issue in this mini series, it's focused on Paige mostly.