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Director
  
Marvin J. Chomsky

First episode date
  
April 12, 1982

Writer
  
Louisa Burns-Bisogno

Language
  
English

7.4/10
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Genre
  
Drama

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

My Body, My Child movie poster

Release date
  
April 12, 1982

Nominations
  
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie

Cast
  
Vanessa Redgrave
(Leenie Cabrezi),
Jack Albertson
(Poppa MacMahon),
Joseph Campanella
(Joe Cabrezi),
Stephen Elliott
(Dr. Gallagher),
James Naughton
(Dr. Dan Berensen),
Gail Strickland
(Adele)

Similar movies
  
The Banishment (2007), Hinugot sa Langit (1985), Sarahs Choice (2009), Swing Vote (1999), Street Corner (1948)

My Body, My Child is a 1982 television film directed by Marvin J. Chomsky and starring Vanessa Redgrave. It premiered on ABC on 12 April 1982. It includes early performances by future Sex and the City co-stars, Sarah Jessica Parker and Cynthia Nixon. It is also the final television role of Jack Albertson, who was subsequently nominated posthumously for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie.

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Plot

Leenie (Redgrave) is a middle-aged Irish-American schoolteacher with three grown daughters. Yet she unexpectedly finds herself pregnant again and is delighted. However her doctor rejects this possibility because of an unreliable blood test and her age. Thus her symptoms such as troubled sleeping and sickness are mis-diagnosed as psychogenic. She is prescribed a host of medications to cope with these difficulties. However it later turns out that she is in fact pregnant and that these medications have been causing irreversible damage to her unborn baby. Faced with the truth that her child will be born with defects, she faces a decision to keep the baby or go against her religious beliefs and have an abortion.

Cast

  • Vanessa Redgrave as Leenie Cabrezi
  • Jack Albertson as Poppa MacMahon
  • Joseph Campanella as Joe Cabrezi
  • Stephen Elliott as Dr. Gallagher
  • James Naughton as Dr. Dan Berensen
  • Gail Strickland as Adele
  • Maia Danziger as Barbara 'Bo'
  • Kenneth Kimmins as Bill
  • Stephen D. Newman as Dr. Fialkin
  • Sarah Jessica Parker as Katy
  • Cynthia Nixon as Nancy
  • Alexandra Borrie as Jana
  • Leon B. Stevens as Dr. Butler
  • Charles Kahlenberg as Dr. Spoke
  • Mavis Ray as Aunt Beasey

    • References

    My Body, My Child Wikipedia
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    My Body, My Child IMDb My Body, My Child themoviedb.org