Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure (TV 1989)

Based on the true story of baby Jessica McClure who fell into a drain pipe in her back yard while playing. She was stuck in the pipe about 20 to 30 feet down and it took rescuers 58 hours ... See full summary »

Director:

Mel Damski

Writer:

David Eyre Jr.

Stars:

Beau Bridges, Pat Hingle, Roxana Zal

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Beau Bridges	...	Police Chief Richard Czech
Pat Hingle	...	Fire Chief James Roberts
Roxana Zal	...	Cissy Mcclure
Will Oldham	...	Chip Mcclure
Whip Hubley	...	Robert O'Donnell
Robin Gammell	...	Msha Investigator Thomas Kaye
Walter Olkewicz	...	Police Officer Andy Glasscock
Rudy Ramos	...	Police Officer Manny Beltran
Jack Rader	...	Public Information Officer James White
Guy Stockwell	...	Bill Jones
Daryl Anderson	...	Richard Armstrong
Mills Watson	...	Charles Boler
Bo Foxworth	...	Steve Forbes
Robin Frates	...	Jamie Moore
Don Hood	...	Fire Captain Alan Doyle

Storyline

Based on the true story of baby Jessica McClure who fell into a drain pipe in her back yard while playing. She was stuck in the pipe about 20 to 30 feet down and it took rescuers 58 hours to get her out. There was fear that if they shook the earth too much with machinery they could cause Jessica to fall further down and die.

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Plot Keywords:

pipe | baby | mother daughter relationship | police | rescue | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Certificate:

TV-PG

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

21 May 1989 (USA)

Also Known As:

58 heures d'angoisse

Company Credits

Production Co:

Campbell Soup Company, Dick Berg-Stonehenge Productions, Interscope Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

100 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

User Reviews

Only a Parent Knows

As I am a daddy, this movie was hard for me to watch.

Shoot! The event was hard to hear about when it happened and I wasn't even a daddy then.

There are many views of this event and many levels on which to examine it. Some of the possibly valid ways would sound mean. (For example if I wanted to, (which I don't!) I COULD say poor children die every day, and I don't know about it and don't suffer for it, the way I did for Jessica McClure, because they die in a common, rather than an unusual way, and they are further away, than she was, and don't get the expedient media attention that Jessica got. But I am not (at least not yet) that cynical.

But the thing that made this movie was the SOUND of the little two-year old girl hooting and hollering up the hole, from twenty feet below. And the look on her dad's face. (There, but for the grace of God, might I be.) I don't know how I could ever endure such a thing. But all one can do is endure it.