THE BURNING BED

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• Release Year: 1984
• Genre: Crime, Drama
• Plot: Farrah Fawcett (TV's Charlie s Angels) scores a personal triumph with a riveting Emmy-nominated performance in this gripping movie about a woman who takes incendiary revenge on her brutal husband. Based on actual events, this courageous story of a woman pushed to the edge is a gut-wrenching, eye-opening and shocking experience. Francine Hughes (Fawcett) marries her small-town high-school sweetheart Mickey (Paul Le Mat, American Graffiti) 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 she nor her husband can ever return. Veteran filmmaker Robert Greenwald (Xanadu) directed this classic TV-movie which was nominated for 8 Emmys and features wonderful performances by Richard Masur (Scavenger Hunt), Grace Zabriskie (Twin Peaks), Penelope Milford (Coming Home) and James T. Callahan (Lady Sings the Blues).
• Cast: Farrah Fawcett, Paul Le Mat, Richard Masur, Grace Zabriskie, Penelope Milford, Christa Denton, James T. Callahan, Gary Grubbs, David Friedman, David Andrews, James Hampton, Virgil Frye, Dixie K. Wade, Heather Rich, Justin Gocke, Elizabeth Lyn Fraser, Ben Fuhrman, Kimberley Dashiell, Fred D. Scott, Patricia George, Hoolihand Burke, Sherry McFarland, Gilmer McCormick, Anna Pagan, Sonny Carl Davis, Delana Michaels, Greg Norberg, Jeremy Ross, Robert Greenwald, Rose Leiman Goldemberg, Faith McNulty
• Director: Robert Greenwald
• Runtime: 1:35
• Company: Tisch/Avnet Productions Inc., Fries Entertainment, 20th Century Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Kino Lorber Incorporated
• Media Format: Movie