Choices of the Heart

Choices of the Heart
Choices of the Heart
Directed by Joseph Sargent
Produced by David W. Rintels
Joseph Sargent
Written by John Pielmeier
Starring Melissa Gilbert
Peter Horton
Helen Hunt
Mary McCusker
Mari Gorman
Pamela Bellwood
Patrick Cassidy
René Enríquez
Mike Farrell
Martin Sheen
Music by John Rubinstein
Cinematography Jorge Stahl Jr.
Editing by George Jay Nicholson
Distributed by NBC
Release date(s) United States:
December 5, 1983
Running time 100 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Choices of the Heart is an award-winning television movie based on the lives of Jean Donovan, Archbishop Oscar Romero, and the three other churchwomen who were killed in El Salvador during their Civil War.[1][2][3]

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Plot

The movie is based on actual events. On March 24, 1980, Romero was killed, and three Roman Catholic nuns and a lay Catholic missionary were killed on December 2, 1980, by Salvadoran death squads, possibly funded by the United States.[3] Three of the women dedicated their lives to helping refugees and sick people for years.[4] Jean Donovan had been in El Salvador for over two years helping the children that she was so devoted to.[4] Donovan says over and over in her letters to her family in the U.S. that God brought her to El Salvador.[4] These women were raped, tortured, and killed by members of a Salvadoran death squad.[3] Attempts from the Salvadoran and American governments were made to try to cover the murders up.[3]

Production

The production was filmed mostly in Mexico. Mike Farrell plays Robert C. White, then U.S. President Jimmy Carter's Ambassador to El Salvador, who keeps running into official interference and noncooperation in his investigation concerning the murdered women.[3] Martin Sheen appears as Matt Phelan, a Dublin priest whom Miss Donovan meets while spending her junior college year in Ireland.[3]

Cast

References

  1. ^ Humanitas Prize winners list 1975-2006
  2. ^ 1984 Humanitas Prize notation on film's IMDB page
  3. ^ a b c d e f John J. O'Connor New York Times, December 5 1983: "TV: DRAMA OF CHURCHWOMEN SLAIN IN EL SALVADOR"
  4. ^ a b c InterReligious Task Force on Central America: "Martyrs of Central America & Colombia"

External links

v · d · eFilms directed by Joseph Sargent
1960s
The Spy in the Green Hat (1966) · One Spy Too Many (1966) · The Hell with Heroes (1968)
1970s
Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) · Tribes (1970) · Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring (1971) · The Man (1972) · White Lightning (1973) · The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) · Friendly Persuasion (1975) · The Night That Panicked America (1975) · MacArthur (1977) · Goldengirl (1979)
1980s
Coast to Coast (1980) · Nightmares (1983) · Memorial Day (1983) · Choices of the Heart (1983) · Terrible Joe Moran (1984) · Jaws: The Revenge (1987) · The Karen Carpenter Story (1989) · Day One (1989)
1990s
The Incident (1990) · Never Forget (1991) · Miss Rose White (1992) · Somebody's Daughter (1992) · Skylark (1993) · Abraham (1993) · World War II: When Lions Roared (1994) · My Antonia (1995) · Mandela and de Klerk (1997) · Miss Evers' Boys (1997) · The Long Island Incident (1998) · Crime and Punishment (1998) · A Lesson Before Dying (1999)
2000s
For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (2000) · Bojangles (2001) · Out of the Ashes (2003) · Something the Lord Made (2004) · Warm Springs (2005) · Sybil (2007) · Sweet Nothing in My Ear (2008)

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