The Portrait (1993)

A struggling artist (Cecilia Peck, Gregory's daughter) is about to open a one woman show in a Manhattan art gallery. But first, she returns to her childhood home only to find that her parents (Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall) have sold the house without telling her. Based on the play PAINTING CHURCHES by Tina Howe and directed by Arthur Penn (BONNIE AND CLYDE). Some 35 years after DESIGNING WOMAN (1957), Peck and Bacall reunite. Too bad the film never rises above middling. Still, one has to admire how Gregory Peck gives the movie over to Bacall and daughter Cecilia. He's just fine but he realizes that the women's roles are stronger. It's the usual broken child returns home to confront her aging parents (think ON GOLDEN POND) scenario. It's not bad, just routine and Peck and Bacall are eminently watchable, they weren't stars for nothing and the young Ms. Peck is adequate. With William Prince, Paul McCrane and Augusta Dabney.