ate Walker's (Doherty) dream has finally come true. After years of working at a factory job, going to night school and saving her money, she's finally been accepted to medical school. She's ready to celebrate with her long-time boyfriend, Paul (Martini), until she discovers she's pregnant. Suddenly
everything changes.
She feels her world come crashing down around her. There's no way she can be a new mother and go to medical school. However, for Paul, it's simpler. He loves Kate and he wants to find a way to make it work. Kate rushes out and takes off. Needing time to think, she drives around for a couple days until she realizes she needs to get back to Paul to work things out.
She arrives back in town to find the factory on fire. She's told that Paul is trapped in the building and there's no way to get him out. One other fact comes to light. Paul has been accused of setting the fire.
Uncertain of how to go on, Kate begins to rely on her best friend, David Cameron (McMahon). Kate has her daughter, Meghan, and four years pass by. One day David admits to Kate that he loves her. She's confused because she's still in love with Paul. When Meghan falls into the river and Kate jumps in after her, Kate suddenly finds herself on the riverbank—only it's two days before the fateful fire.
She discovers Paul is alive and she has a second chance to change things. But saving Paul won't be easy, especially when fate has plans of its own.
A Day that never seems to end
Shannen Doherty's first project since leaving Charmed isn't just Another Day—it's more like the longest day. This USA original movie is painfully slow, and Doherty spends most of the movie looking pensive or crying. The only saving grace of the film is the performances by Martini and McMahon, but neither has enough screen time to save it.
The weak script is predictable and the character of Kate plays against Doherty's talents, giving her little to do but look worried. Since Doherty is the co-executive producer, it's too bad she didn't pick better material for herself. There's nothing about Another Day that hasn't been done before.
Time-travel stories, even fantasy ones like Day, often struggle with the paradox that events wouldn't happen the way they happen unless they already happened. That makes as much sense as the story. Some well-written stories can pull off the time-travel paradox, but weak material like this slow-moving film gives the viewers plenty of time to ask questions and realize that the characters are doing very stupid things.
The production values are professional enough, which is standard for a USA Network film. There's nothing else notable about the film, except that it's the type of television movie that drove the big networks' Movie Of the Week into the ground, eventually killing it.
