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

A caring community and variety of people nationwide come together to rescue a baby who is trapped in an abandoned water well, but they have a short time before something bad might happen.

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 Jessica McClure who fell in an abandoned water well while playing in her aunt's backyard. She was stuck 22 feet below the ground and it took rescuers 58 hours to get her out. There was fear that if they shook the Earth too much with machinery, it would cause her to fall further down and die.

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Plot Keywords:

well | trapped | baby | rescue | reference to jessica mcclure | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Certificate:

TV-PG

Did You Know?

Trivia

A TV movie made for the ABC network.

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Connections

Referenced in BoJack Horseman: One Trick Pony (2014)

User Reviews

Well worth to watch

This is a truly good movie. It has managed to captured the event and the people in a special way. The acting and directing are good and the story is well written. There is a really good score by Mark Snow too in there, but at the most intense scenes there are no music at all. I believe that it was a very good thing to cut the music as the silence made the scenes more dramatic then any musical score would.

If you are a parent I believe this movie would be much harder to watch then if you're not. However, the story is touching no matter what. I'm no parent nor a very sentimental guy, but I find this movie very touching. The way people can care and the way anything is possible if you just want it bad enough.

The movie brings up several interesting things. Among them the power of the media. It was the media who made this story, and so they could have turned it in any direction, really. It was the media who made people care.

If you get the chance don't let this movie go unseen. Espesially if you're a parent.

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

21 May 1989 (USA)

Also Known As:

58 heures d'angoisse

Filming Locations:

California, USA

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