A fictional drama, covering a 30-year period, about a poverty-stricken teenager forced to give up her illegitimate son at birth, and the climb to wealth and power as the wife of a newspaper publisher who helps her locate her son, in whose future she becomes obsessed.
Acting
Lindsay Wagner commits to every unhinged maternal choice.
Production
Three decades of questionable wigs and escalating furs.
Direction
Waris Hussein stretches 142 minutes like taffy.
Director
Waris Hussein
Lindsay Wagner
Callie Lord
Jameson Parker
Randy Bordeaux
Dabney Coleman
Randall Bordeaux
Joy Garrett
Jeannie
Michelle Pfeiffer
Sue Lynn Bordeaux
James Sloyan
Bubba Wrench
John Harkins
Arthur Cotham
Andrew Prine
Kimball Smythe
Richard McKenzie
Donohue
Macon McCalman
Deacon
Jim Calvert
Randy at Age 12
Dawn Jeffory
Martha
Hugh Gillin
Sen. Houseman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Waris Hussein's follow-up to the acclaimed 'The Burning Bed'; he apparently wanted to explore female obsession from a completely different angle.
The 1981 TV movie format allowed networks to sneak 'prestige' topics like illegitimacy and class mobility into living rooms under the guise of melodrama.
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