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Director
  
Don McBrearty

Duration
  

Screenplay
  
Raymond Storey

Country
  
Canada

6.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama

Running time
  
1h 34m

Writer
  
Raymond Storey

Language
  
English

Butterbox Babies (film) movie poster

Release date
  
1995 (1995)

Nominations
  
Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Mini-series

Cast
  
Susan Clark
(Lila Young),
Peter MacNeill
(William Young),
Catherine Fitch
(Iris)

Similar movies
  
Kevin Sullivan produced Butterbox Babies and Sleeping Dogs Lie

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Butterbox Babies is a film by Sullivan Entertainment and adapted from the book Butterbox Babies by Bette L. Cahill. The film and book are based on the true story of the Ideal Maternity Home, a home for unwed pregnant mothers, during the Great Depression and Second World War. The home made millions from the illegal adoption of illegitimate babies during the 1930s and 1940s.

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Synopsis

On the surface, Lila Young (Susan Clark) and her husband William (Peter MacNeill) are devout Christians pursuing their calling of helping young, unwed expectant mothers deliver their babies at the Ideal Maternity Home in East Chester, Nova Scotia during the 1930s and 1940s. The medical community, however, is very skeptical about the safety of the procedures being conducted by Lila and the care being given to babies born at the Home. Skepticism soon becomes intense scrutiny when a routine delivery results in the death of a young mother and her baby. Desperate to continue their work and prove they are doing God’s work, the Youngs start selling healthy babies to wealthy, childless couples. The babies that are born premature or unhealthy are poorly cared for and unceremoniously buried in wooden butter boxes if they die. Thankfully, the Youngs are out of business at the end of this shocking true story, but their years of illegally selling and burying babies makes it impossible to determine the extent of their atrocities to this day.

Awards

  • 2 Gemini Awards – Best TV Movie, Best Supporting Actress In A Dramatic Program (Catherine Fitch)
  • Nominee – Banff Television Festival, 1995 (Television movie category)
  • Silver Award – Worldfest Houston Festival, 1995

    • Cast

  • Susan Clark as Lila Young
  • Michael Riley as Russell Cameron
  • Peter MacNeill as William Young
  • Catherine Fitch as Iris
  • Shannon Lawson as Ann O’Dwyer
  • Nicholas Campbell as Clayton Oliver
  • Ryan Thistlethwaite as adopted baby

    • References

    Butterbox Babies (film) Wikipedia
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    Butterbox Babies (film) IMDb Butterbox Babies (film) themoviedb.org