An Air Force nurse about to leave the service is badly disfigured about her face in a car accident in which she also loses her baby.
Acting
Glynnis O'Connor's raw, vanity-free transformation.
Direction
Fielder Cook's unflinching restraint—lets pain breathe.
Practical Effects
Pre-CGI disfigurement makeup that actually disturbs.
Director
Fielder Cook
Glynnis O'Connor
Leola Mae Harmon
Armand Assante
Dr. James Stallings
Craig Wasson
Brian Harmon
Annie Potts
Daria
Michael Sacks
Dr. Harry Jarrick
Bruce Abbott
Markus
Richard Backus
Civilian Doctor
William Frankfather
Dental Corps Doctor
Kenneth Kimmins
Chief of Surgery
Lenka Peterson
Leola Mae's Mother
Milton Selzer
Colonel
William Windom
General
Lin Shaye
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on nurse Leola Mae Harmon's 1978 memoir; she sued the production for misrepresenting her marriage as failing when it was actually stable.
This 1984 ABC Movie of the Week arrived during peak 'disease-of-the-week' TV era, when networks competed for Emmy-bait trauma narratives.
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