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My Body, My Child Directed by Marvin J. Chomsky Produced by Thomas De Wolfe
Robert Berger (supervising)
Herbert Brodkin (executive)Written by Louisa Burns-Bisogno Starring Vanessa Redgrave
Jack Albertson
Joseph Campanella
Stephen Elliott
James NaughtonMusic by Charles Gross Cinematography Tony Imi Editing by Robert M. Reitano
Ronald RooseCountry United States Language English Release date April 12, 1982 Running time 100 minutes My Body, My Child is a 1982 television film directed by Marvin J. Chomsky and starring Vanessa Redgrave. It premiered on ABC on 12 April, 1982. It includes early performances by future Sex and the City co-stars, Sarah Jessica Parker and Cynthia Nixon. It is also the final role of the late Jack Albertson, who was subsequently nominated posthumously for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie.
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Plot
Leenie (Redgrave) is a middle-aged Irish-American schoolteacher with three grown-up daughters. Yet she unexpectedly finds herself pregnant again and is delighted. However her doctor rejects this possibility because of an unreliable blood test and her age. Thus her symptoms such as troubled sleeping and sickness are mis-doagnosed as psychogenic. She is prescribed a host of medications to cope with these difficulties. However it later turns out that she is in fact pregnant and that these medications have been causing irreversible damage to her unborn baby. Faced with the truth that her child will be born with defects, she faces a decision to keep the baby or go against her religious beliefs and have an abortion.[1]
Cast
- Vanessa Redgrave as Leenie Cabrezi
- Jack Albertson as Poppa MacMahon
- Joseph Campanella as Joe Cabrezi
- Stephen Elliott as Dr. Gallagher
- James Naughton as Dr. Dan Berensen
- Gail Strickland as Adele
- Maia Danziger as Barbara 'Bo'
- Kenneth Kimmins as Bill
- Stephen D. Newman as Dr. Fialkin
- Sarah Jessica Parker as Katy
- Cynthia Nixon as Nancy
- Alexandra Borrie as Jana
- Leon B. Stevens as Dr. Butler
- Charles Kahlenberg as Dr. Spoke
- Mavis Ray as Aunt Beasey
See also
- Catholicism and abortion
References
- ^ Overview for My Body, My Child TCM. Retrieved on 1 September 2010
External links
1970s Evel Knievel (1971) · Mongo's Back in Town (1971) · Family Flight (1972) · Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan (1975) · Murph the Surf (1975) · Mackintosh and T.J. (1975) · Brinks: The Great Robbery (1976) · A Matter of Wife... And Death (1976) · Victory at Entebbe (1976) · Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1979)1980s Attica (1980) · My Body, My Child (1982) · Inside the Third Reich (1982) · I Was a Mail Order Bride (1982) · Tank (1984) · The Deliberate Stranger (1986) · Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (1986) · Billionaire Boys Club (1987)Categories:- English-language films
- 1982 television films
- American television films
- Films about abortion
- Films directed by Marvin J. Chomsky
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