Choices We've Made

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Choices We've Made

Starring Lara Flynn Boyle as Cheyenne Morrison, a former CEO of a successful corporation, who has recently been let go from her cushy job. After feeling unwanted and devastated, Cheyenne leaves New York City to head back to her hometown of Graceland, Georgia. Cheyenne left Graceland 10 years ago at the age of 24. She left behind, not only her parents, her husband and (then) toddler twin children. Cheyenne always wanted to leave her small hometown to go to the big city, yet she married young and started a family all before she turned 23 years old. Cheyenne applied and got accepted to New York University and just up and left Graceland on a whim. Now, Cheyenne wants to go back to Graceland in search of her long-time ago abandoned family. Cheyenne shows up on her old doorstep to find a familiar face-her husband, David (Jason Lee). David, the nice guy that he is, allows her to move back in with him and their twin children: Max (Frankie Ryan Manriquez) and Ruby (Taylor Atelian), who are now 10 years old. David explains to the twins about Cheyenne being thier mom, after first, they are hostile towards her for leaving (which causes her to want to run, again), yet they start to warm-up to her, after she drags out some old pictures of Cheyenne and David holding the twins as newborns and infants. Also, Cheyenne is once again befriended by her high school best friend, Rachel Bouvier (Jennifer Aspen), who hasn't changed a bit and is just as naive and curious. Cheyenne attempts to make amends with her estranged parents, Dale and Lorraine Burdett (Craig T. Nelson, Shelley Fabares). Dale is just like his grandkids, first-he's hostile, but then is just happy to have her home again. Yet Lorraine is anything but happy her flighty daughter returns to now re-enter her family's lives once again, and thinks she really owes her hubby and kids a lot for what she did in the past. (Lorraine's well-known agruement is "Cheyenne, you're married with kids, you can't jsut walk in and out of your family's lives whenever you choose to.")


CAST:
Lara Flynn Boyle as Cheyenne Burdett-Morrison
Jason Lee as David Morrison
Taylor Atelian as Ruby Morrison
Frankie Ryan Manriquez as Max Morrison
Jennifer Aspen as Rachel Bouvier
Craig T. Nelson as Dale Burdett
Shelley Fabares as Lorraine Cloutier-Burdett

(Nelson and Fabares played a couple on "Coach" too.)

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Episodes

Ep1: Pilot Episode:
Cheyenne's boss (Bebe Neuwirth) tells her she will be let go from her CEO position, Cheyenne packs up and decides to head back to Graceland. Cheyenne ends up moving back in with David and the kids, trying to settle some unfinished business with her parents, and reconnecting with her old best friend from high school. Cheyenne realizes her parents and her twin children are not thrilled to see her as she hoped they'd be. Yet Rachel is delighted to have her old friend back, and David is just glad that his first and only true love is returning back into his life.

Ep2: Warming Up:
Cheyenne is happy to have her dad (Dale) and her kids (Max, Ruby) to be warming up to her and not so hostile about her leaving in the past. Yet Cheyenne is having trouble dealing with her still-very-hostile mother (Lorraine). Cheyenne and Lorraine get into a big agrument, causing Lorraine to say some regretful things about her flighty daughter, and causing Cheyenne to want to run away again. Yet Cheyenne has a talk with David and Rachel, who convince her to stay and work things out with her mom.

Ep3: Double Birthdays:
Max and Ruby are celebrating their 11th birthday. David and Dale spend the afternoon trying to build and set-up their new swing set (that David bought for them-he saved and saved for it). Rachel decides to occupy the twins, giving Cheyenne and Lorraine some time alone to talk out their problems. The women soon solve their problems, causing everyone (Dale, David, the twins, Rachel, and themselves) to be happy.

Ep4: The Other Sister:
Dale and Lorraine's other daughter, Samantha (Kimberly Williams-Paisley), her hubby, and their daughter pay a week-long visit to her parents and sister. Cheyenne becomes jealous of how her parents are so proud of Sam. Cheyenne decides to take control and forbid David or the kids to visit with Sam and her family during their stay. David enlists in Rachel's help as he decides to have Dale, Lorraine, Cheyenne, and Samantha discuss the current situation. Cheyenne learns how Samantha left Graceland to start a family, unline her-who left her family in Graceland. Cheyenne learns she is a very selfish and self-centered person.

Ep5: Enlisting In Therapy:
Cheyenne decides to enroll herself into therapy with Dr. Rebecca Kennedy (Kirstie Alley). Yet Cheyenne learns she and David can't afford therapy (along with other things) solely-based on David's income (from the used car lot). Lorraine and Rachel help Cheyenne find a job in Graceland, meanwhile she must come to terms and deal with her pride (which isn't letting take a job "beneath her"). Cheyenne ends up working at a beauty salon, as the new shampoo girl.

Ep6: Business To Hair:
Cheyenne is slowly adjusting from being a high-powered CEO to a small-business shampoo girl. Rachel and her new boyfriend think they are in love, until they learn their divorced parents (her dad, his mom) are getting married to each other--causing them to break up. Lorraine talks to Dale about how David is allowing Cheyenne to walk all over him.

Ep7: Father/Son-In-Law Talk:
Dale takes David to the bar, where he tells David he needs to get a backbone and stand up to his wife-who is walking all over him. David tries to get up the courage to stand up to his overbearing and controlling wife. Meanwhile, Max and Ruby's teacher is sick and get Rachel-as their substitute teacher and fully-take advantage of the situation (like mom like children).

Ep8: The Anniversary:
Rachel babysits Max and Ruby, as David and Cheyenne head to Atlanta to celebrate her parents' 37th wedding anniversary with Dale, Lorraine, and Lorraine's visiting mother, Beatrice (Cloris Leachman). Grandma Beatrice is very outspoken and will speak her mind,and sure proves it during dinner-by givng her two-cents about David and Cheyenne's marriage and lower-classed lifestyle. David becomes hurt about the lower-classed part, yet remembers his talk with Dale-and lets the old bag has a piece of his mind. Beatrice, along with Dale, Lorraine, and Cheyenne, becomes blown-away and must suffer the consequences of having David tell all.

Ep9: Troubled Marriage:
Cheyenne decides to cancel her therapy sessions with Dr. Kennedy, and have Dr. Kennedy perform marriage counseling on Cheyenne and David's marriage. David confesses that he has feelings for someone other than his wife: Rachel. Cheyenne is shocked and appalled that she isn't the object of her own husband's affections. Cheyenne also learns Rachel stepped in and helped David out with the household and the kids while she was off in NYC. Cheyenne feels betrayed and goes off to talk to Rachel, who has had enough of Cheyenne's stuff and tells Cheyenne that she once slept with David (when she was off in NYC)-yet David ended the short-lived relationship out of respect for his absent wife.

Ep10: Never Again:
Cheyenne is confused about her marriage with David, her friendship with Rachel, the whole Rachel-David issue, and why she really came back to Graceland. With Lorraine away visiting an old college friend, Cheyenne turns to her good-ole dad, Dale for some fatherly advice--who just bluntly tells her she's a big girl now, on her own now (that she's a wife and mom), and that it is mostly up to her to decide her next move. Cheyenne feels Dale's talk didn't help at all, until she gets the urge to run off again. Cheyenne is caught dead in her tracks by Ruby and Max-who announce they don't want their mom to leave again. Cheyenne decides to stay for the kids's sake.

MORE EPISODES TO COME LATER....