Do You Know the Muffin Man?

Do You Know the Muffin Man?
DVD release
Directed by	Gilbert Cates
Produced by	Jon Avnet Daniel Freudenberger Jordan Kerner Robert Z. Shapiro
Written by	Daniel Freudenberger
Starring	Pam Dawber Brian Bonsall Stephen Dorff John Shea Matthew Laurance Dee Dee Rescher Anthony Geary Natalie West
Music by	Lee Holdridge
Editing by	Peter E. Berger
Distributed by	CBS Productions Direct Source Label
Release date(s)	October 22, 1989
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Do You Know the Muffin Man? is a CBS Network docudrama starring Pam Dawber. It was directed by Gilbert Cates and also stars Stephen Dorff, John Shea, Anthony Geary, Dee Dee Rescher and Brian Bonsall.^[1]

The critically praised film, about child abuse in a community day care center,^[2] was ranked as the 8th most-watched television program of the week by the Nielsen Ratings after its initial airing on October 22, 1989.^[3]

Summary

Roger Dollison, a police officer, and his wife Kendra are living the American dream. They have two children, Teddy and Sandy, and a lovely home and a dog named Rex. What they know and how they live as a family is irreparably changed one day when it is discovered that a classmate of Teddy's is the apparent victim of sexual abuse and molestation at the respected neighborhood daycare center. Like all other parents, the Dollisons are tormented: "we should have known, we should have seen," but their devastation is complete when Teddy tells his own story, one he promised his abusers he would never tell.^[4]

References

1. ^ [1]
2. ^ "Details of abuse overkill in 'Muffin Man'". Boca Raton News. October 20, 1989. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xgdPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=p40DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6911,1129687&dq=do+you+know+the+muffin+man&hl=en. 
3. ^ "Earthquake Cuts Ratings of Networks". The New York Times. October 25, 1989. http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/25/arts/earthquake-cuts-ratings-of-networks.html. 
4. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097214/plotsummary

External Links

• Do You Know the Muffin Man? at the Internet Movie Database