Families in crisis must confront reality in this affecting twin bill. A Season of Hope finds Hackett clan matriarch Elizabeth (JoBeth Williams) struggling to keep her family together when a blight threatens their livelihood. In Seasons of the Heart, after Vivian Levinson (Carol Burnett) takes in her abandoned 7-year-old grandson, the antipathy coming from her husband (George Segal) forces long-ignored issues out into the open.