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The Burning Bed (1984)
Directed by Robert Greenwald
“He didn't know how to stop it... she did.”
Crime, Drama, TV Movie · 1h 40m
An abused battered wife has had enough of husband beating up on her. Everywhere she turns for help, there's not much anyone will do. After he rapes her one night, she sets the bed on fire with him in it asleep.
Cast
Farrah Fawcett
Francine Hughes
Paul Le Mat
Mickey Hughes
Richard Masur
Aryon Greydanus
Grace Zabriskie
Flossie Hughes
Penelope Milford
Gaby
Christa Denton
Christy, Age 12
James T. Callahan
Berlin Hughes
Gary Grubbs
District Attorney
David Andrews
Wimpy Hughes
James Hampton
Police Witness
Virgil Frye
Virg
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Dixie K. Wade
Hazel Moran
Crew
- Director
- Robert Greenwald
- Novel
- Faith McNulty
- Director of Photography
- Isidore Mankofsky
- Original Music Composer
- Charles Gross
- Editor
- Richard Fetterman, Michael A. Stevenson
- Producer
- Carol Schreder
Details
- Release date
- 1984-10-08
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, TV Movie
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Tisch/Avnet Productions Inc.