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The Burning Bed is a american film of genre Drama directed by Robert Greenwald released in USA on 8 october 1984 with Farrah Fawcett
The Burning Bed (1984)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 8 october 1984
Length 1h35
Directed by Robert Greenwald
OriginUSA
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about families, Feminist films, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about domestic violence, Political films, Disaster films
Rating71%
The Burning Bed is the name of both a non-fiction book by Faith McNulty about battered housewife Francine Hughes, and the TV-movie adaptation written by Rose Leiman Goldemberg.
After thirteen years of domestic abuse at the hands of her husband, James Berlin ("Mickey") Hughes, she set fire to the bed he was sleeping in at their Dansville, Michigan home on March 9, 1977. Mickey Hughes was killed and the house destroyed in the resulting inferno.
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Après des années de coups et de terreur, Francine Hughes a mis le feu au lit de son agresseur pendant qu'il dormait. Ses aveux et le procès pour meurtre qui a suivi ont enthousiasmé la nation. Une histoire dramatique d'une femme poussée à bout.Actors
Farrah Fawcett
(Francine Hughes)
Paul Le Mat
(Mickey Hughes)
Richard Masur
(Aryon Greydanus)
Grace Zabriskie
(Flossie Hughes)
Penelope Milford
(Gaby)
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