A Private Matter
A Private Matter
1992
Drama
TV Movie
1h 28m
When Sherri Finkbine (Sissy Spacek), the host of the Sixties children's television program Romper Room, learns that her unborn child has been damaged by her use of the drug thalidomide, she and her husband decide to abort the fetus, setting in motion the media controversy that is the subject of Joan Micklin Silver's made-for-cable drama (movies.msn.com)
Directed by:
Joan Micklin Silver
19 total credits
Credits include: Loverboy, Crossing Delancey, Chilly Scenes of Winter and Hester Street
Writer:
William Nicholson
20 total credits
Credits include: Gladiator, Les Misérables, Everest, Elizabeth: The Golden Age and Unbroken
Starring:
Sissy Spacek
63 total credits
Sissy Spacek (born Mary Elizabeth Spacek; December 25, 1949) is an American actress and singer. She won the Best Actress Oscar for her role as country star Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980). She has been nominated for an Oscar a total of six times. She is also known for her role as Carrie White in Brian De Palma's 1976 horror film Carrie, for which she received her first Academy Award nomination. Spacek is known mainly as a dramatic actress, but also has made comedies...(Wikipedia)
82 total credits
Aidan Quinn is an American actor. His first significant film role was in Reckless, followed by a breakthrough role in Desperately Seeking Susan as the character "Dez" (the love interest of the character played by Rosanna Arquette). Quinn next starred in the controversial TV movie An Early Frost, about a young lawyer dying of AIDS (it was broadcast on NBC on November 11, 1985) and co-starred such luminaries as Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara and Sylvia Sidney...(Wikipedia)
22 total credits
Credits include: Bonnie and Clyde, Roseanne, Watermelon Man, Rachel, Rachel and Diane
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Directed by:
Joan Micklin Silver 19 total credits
Credits include: Loverboy, Crossing Delancey, Chilly Scenes of Winter and Hester Street
Writer:
William Nicholson 20 total credits
Credits include: Gladiator, Les Misérables, Everest, Elizabeth: The Golden Age and Unbroken
Starring:
Sissy Spacek 63 total credits
Sissy Spacek (born Mary Elizabeth Spacek; December 25, 1949) is an American actress and singer. She won the Best Actress Oscar for her role as country star Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980). She has been nominated for an Oscar a total of six times. She is also known for her role as Carrie White in Brian De Palma's 1976 horror film Carrie, for which she received her first Academy Award nomination. Spacek is known mainly as a dramatic actress, but also has made comedies...(Wikipedia)
82 total credits
Aidan Quinn is an American actor. His first significant film role was in Reckless, followed by a breakthrough role in Desperately Seeking Susan as the character "Dez" (the love interest of the character played by Rosanna Arquette). Quinn next starred in the controversial TV movie An Early Frost, about a young lawyer dying of AIDS (it was broadcast on NBC on November 11, 1985) and co-starred such luminaries as Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara and Sylvia Sidney...(Wikipedia)
22 total credits
Credits include: Bonnie and Clyde, Roseanne, Watermelon Man, Rachel, Rachel and Diane
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