The burning bed
Greenwald,Robert
The burning bed Videorecording At head of title Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; produced by Carol Schreder ; teleplay by Rose Leiman Goldemberg ; directed by Robert Greenwald. - DVD video : English - Santa Monica, CA MGM DVD : MGM Home Entertainment ©2004. - 1 videodisc (95 min.) sd., col. 4 3/4 in.
Based on the book by Faith McNulty. Videodisc release of a 1984 made-for-television motion picture. Sources used: copyright data sheet and copyright data base.
The Burning Bed is a 1984 TV-movie adaptation written by Rose Leiman Goldemberg. On March 9, 1977, Francine Hughes, following thirteen years of physical domestic abuse at the hands of her husband. This film is based on the true story of Francine Hughes, a battered housewife who was prosecuted in 1977 for dousing her abusive husband with gasoline and setting him on fire as he slept. Francine Hughes marries her small-town high-school sweetheart Mickey 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 her nor her husband can ever return.
MPAA rating: Not rated.
DVD format, region 1, full screen presentation; Dolby Digital Mono.
English or Spanish dialogue with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
Television adaptations, Drama, Biographical films, Made for TV movies, domestic abuse
791.4572 / TH
The burning bed Videorecording At head of title Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; produced by Carol Schreder ; teleplay by Rose Leiman Goldemberg ; directed by Robert Greenwald. - DVD video : English - Santa Monica, CA MGM DVD : MGM Home Entertainment ©2004. - 1 videodisc (95 min.) sd., col. 4 3/4 in.
Based on the book by Faith McNulty. Videodisc release of a 1984 made-for-television motion picture. Sources used: copyright data sheet and copyright data base.
The Burning Bed is a 1984 TV-movie adaptation written by Rose Leiman Goldemberg. On March 9, 1977, Francine Hughes, following thirteen years of physical domestic abuse at the hands of her husband. This film is based on the true story of Francine Hughes, a battered housewife who was prosecuted in 1977 for dousing her abusive husband with gasoline and setting him on fire as he slept. Francine Hughes marries her small-town high-school sweetheart Mickey 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 her nor her husband can ever return.
MPAA rating: Not rated.
DVD format, region 1, full screen presentation; Dolby Digital Mono.
English or Spanish dialogue with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
Television adaptations, Drama, Biographical films, Made for TV movies, domestic abuse
791.4572 / TH