The Cracker Factory
The Cracker Factory | |
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Genre | Drama |
Based on | 1977 novel by Joyce Rebeta-Burditt |
Written by | Joyce Burditt (novel) (as Joyce Rebeta-Burditt) Richard Alan Shapiro (as Richard Shapiro) |
Directed by | Burt Brinckerhoff |
Starring | Natalie Wood |
Music by | Billy Goldenberg |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Executive producers | Tony Converse Roger Gimbel |
Producers | Richard Alan Shapiro (producer) (as Richard Shapiro) (associate producer) |
Cinematography | Michel Hugo |
Editor | |
Running time | 100 min. |
Production company | EMI Films |
Distributor | ABC |
Release | |
Original network | ABC |
Picture format | Color |
Audio format | Mono |
Original release | March 16, 1979 |
The Cracker Factory is an American television film directed by Burt Brinckerhoff. The teleplay by Richard Shapiro is based on the best-selling 1977 novel by Joyce Rebeta-Burditt. The film was broadcast by ABC on March 16, 1979.
Synopsis[]
Alcoholic Cleveland housewife Cassie Barrett is institutionalized in a psychiatric ward after experiencing a nervous breakdown in the supermarket. We learn this is the latest in a series of hospitalizations from which Cassie emerges supposedly in control of her life but actually still teetering on the edge. During this latest stay, she develops a romantic crush on psychiatrist Edwin Alexander and a close relationship with night supervisor Tinkerbell, both of whom help her take steps toward facing her inner demons and learning to live with sobriety.
Principal cast[]
- Natalie Wood ..... Cassie Barrett
- Perry King ..... Dr. Edwin Alexander
- Shelley Long ..... Cara
- Juliet Mills ..... Tinkerbell
- Peter Haskell ..... Charlie Barrett
- Vivian Blaine ..... Helen
- Marian Mercer ..... Eleanor
Production[]
Wood was signed in December 1978.[1]
See also[]
List of television films produced for American Broadcasting Company
References[]
- ^ Natalie Wood in 'The Cracker Factory' Los Angeles Times 5 Dec 1978: f17.
External links[]
- 1979 television films
- 1979 films
- American television films
- American films
- 1979 drama films
- Films set in Cleveland
- Films set in psychiatric hospitals
- Films scored by Billy Goldenberg
- Films based on American novels
- Films directed by Burt Brinckerhoff
- American drama television film stubs