Battered (1978) (TV)

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5.0/10   

Director:

Peter Werner

Writers:

Karen Grassle (writer)
Cynthia Lovelace Sears (writer)

Release Date:

26 September 1978 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Gritty drama of three interweaving stories of three women of various backgrounds and ages whose marriages are complicated by spouse-abuse by their husbands. |

Plot Keywords:

Battered Woman | Physical Abuse | Domestic Violence | Marital Abuse | Abusive Husband

Cast

Karen Grassle	...	Susannah Hawks
LeVar Burton	...	Andrew Sinclair
Mike Farrell	...	Michael Hawks
Chip Fields	...	Ginny Sinclair
Joan Blondell	...	Edna Thompson
Howard Duff	...	Bill Thompson
Diana Scarwid	...	Doris Thompson
Keith Coogan	...	Stevie Hawks (as Keith Mitchell)
Ketty Lester	...	Helen
Leonard Barr	...	Prof. Jeremiah Hayden
Kres Mersky	...	Della
Alex Colon	...	Carlos
Barbara Bishop	...	Woman in kitchen
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ali Giron	...	Battered Woman in Shelter
Esther Sutherland	...	Black woman in nursery

Runtime:

120 min (including commercials)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Charles Fries Productions

Trivia:

The car driven by Michael Hawks (Mike Farrell) is a 1978 Ford Thunderbird Diamond Jubilee Edition. This car was Ford's flagship vehicle which celebrated the company's seventy-fifth anniversary. This vehicle was very rare (only six thousand were built) and this is the only movie in which this particular vehicle was featured.