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Summary:
Francine Hughes marries her small-town high-school sweetheart Mickey only to discover his temper is short and his behavior violent. Urged to hang in there by her family and a broken social welfare system, she suffers continuous abuse, until desperation leads her to cross a threshold from which neither her nor her husband can ever return.
ISBN:
9786317081529
Publisher, Date:
[New York, New York] : Kino Lorber, [2017]
Description:
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
digital optical
widescreen (1.78:1) fullscreen (1.33:1)
laser optical NTSC
video file DVD video
Target Audience Note:
CHVR: PG.
Notes:
Title from web page.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1984.
Wide screen (1.78:1) and full screen (1.33:1).
Based on the book by Faith McNulty.
DVD extras: Includes both widescreen and full screen versions; interview with director Robert Greenwald; trailer gallery.
Director of photography, Isidore Mankofsky ; editor, Michael A. Stevenson, Richard W. Fetterman ; music, Charles Gross.
Farrah Fawcett, Paul le Mat, Richard Masur, Grace Zabriskie, James T. Callahan, Penelope Milford, Crista Denton, Gary Grubbs.
DVD; Region 1; NTSC; anamorphic 1.33:1/1.78:1.
Closed-captioned.
Publisher or Distributor Number:
11968100
UPC:
738329216191
738329216191
Series:
KL studio classicsKL studio classics.
Subjects:
Abused wives -- Michigan.Hughes, Francine, 1947-
Marital violence -- Michigan.
Uxoricide -- Michigan.
Wife abuse -- Michigan.
Genre:
Biographical films.Feature films.
Television adaptations.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Other Authors:
Callahan, James T., 1930- actor.Fawcett, Farrah, 1947-2009, actor.
Greenwald, Robert, television director.
Grubbs, Gary, 1949- actor.
Kino Lorber, Inc., publisher.
Le Mat, Paul, actor.
Masur, Richard, actor.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, production company.
Milford, Penelope, actor.
Television adaptation of (work): McNulty, Faith. Burning bed.
Zabriskie, Grace, actor.
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