This movie came out in the early 80s. This is all I can remember from it:
The movie is about a poor mother and her children. At some point in the movie her (abusive?) husband throws a cooking pot out the front door during an argument and a neighbor rushes over and grabs it, saying something to the effect of once it has left the house, the mother can no longer claim it.
One of the children gets seriously injured when she is sitting in between two railroad cars on a track and the cars couple together. She gets taken to the hospital, where a scene is displayed with the mother frantically running behind a group of doctors ushering the girl down a hospital corrider on a stretcher. I think she has a fistful of money in her hands and she's begging the doctors to just let her take the girl home. I believe the girl later dies.
I know that's not much to go on. Anyone have any idea?
2006-11-04 16:54:54 · 5 answers · asked by blueskies7890 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Gee. I coulda sworn I saw this movie in a theater. All of the answers have been TV movies.
No, it's not the Burning Bed. I don't recall the mother being abusive to the children in any way.
I can't remember the actress but for some reason I had it stuck in my head that it was Sally Field. I later figured this was wrong, but I think she might look like that.
The DollMaker eh? Seeing the write-up about it doesn't set off the bells and whistles, but I can't say for certain that it is or is not the movie I'm thinking of. I'll have to check it out.
Thanks for your help!
2006-11-07 06:19:10 · update #1
oh i know that one give me a sec...yes she is right the dollmaker!
2006-11-04 16:57:13 · answer #1 · answered by crissymm5 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It looked like you were first describing Farrah Fawcett in The Burning Bed and then some other movie I saw who was a bad mother and killed her husband with cyanide and tried to do the same with kids... What is that one called? Do you recall what actor or actress was in the movie you're searching for?
2006-11-05 01:13:12 · answer #2 · answered by ♪ Tony's girl ♪ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like The Dollmaker starring Jane Fonda.
2006-11-05 01:00:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds alot like "Small Sacrifices" with Farrah Fawcett.
2006-11-05 23:19:09 · answer #4 · answered by crash 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dollmaker sounds good.
2006-11-05 03:36:57 · answer #5 · answered by anitababy.brainwash 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋