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Finnegan Begin Again (1985) (TV)
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Walter Lockwood (writer)
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24 February 1985 (USA)
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Robert Preston is retired and taking care of his senile wife. He can't get her to allow him to throw...
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Preston transparent and vital,-Sylvia Sydney, heartbreakingly real in this story of the end of a marriage and a life...and the beginning of a new one.
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Mary Tyler Moore | ... | Liz DeHaan | |
| Robert Preston | ... | Mike Finnegan | |
| Sam Waterston | ... | Paul Broadbent | |
| Sylvia Sidney | ... | Margaret Finnegan | |
| David Huddleston | ... | Jack Archer | |
| Bob Gunton | ... | Christian Jamison | |
| Giancarlo Esposito | ... | Intruder | |
| Russell Horton | ... | Mort | |
| Avery Brooks | ... | Dude on Bus | |
| Peter Friedman | ... | John Jewell | |
| Jon DeVries | ... | Dr. Binder | |
| Frederick Strother | ... | Elias Williams (as Fred Strother) | |
| Ron McLarty | ... | Leo the Bartender | |
| Rick Warner | ... | Charlie DeWitt | |
| Jan Guarino | ... | Ticket Seller |
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Title character's name is based upon an old Scottish song that Robert Preston sings during the movie: "There was a man named Michael Finnigan. He had whiskers on his chin-igan. The wind came up and blew them in-igan. Poor old Michael Finnigan!".
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Liz DeHaan:
[to Mike Finnegan] You are utterly presumptuous.
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Robert Preston, "Lonelyhearts newswriter" discouraged, sour on life, caretaker to his wife of many decades; Sylvia Sydney, in a role of heartbreaking depth, his wife, slipped in dementia; Mary Tyler Moore, the woman who's had it all go wrong, together in a story of life at its ending and its beginnings. Superb.