Baby Girl Scott (1987)
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This heartrending TV movie stars John Lithgow and Mary Beth Hurt as the parents of a severely handicapped premature infant. Weighing a scant 20 ounces at birth, the baby girl has no esophagus and very few signs of being able to stay alive without artificial assistance. The desperate couple sign away the responsibility of their daughter to the doctors, who feel that they can pull the girl through with extensive experimental medical work. Within a week of this agreement, the cost to the couple is $71,000, an amount that will triple before the situation can be legally resolved. Though not based on any factual case, Baby Girl Scott maintains an uncomfortable reality throughout. The film first aired on May 24, 1987. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- John Lithgow - Neil Scott
- Linda Kelsey - Jean Gelson
- Ronny Cox - Doctor Kenderly
- Robert Bruce - Resident
- Armin Shimerman - Mr. Taverner
- Michael Horton
- Dian Kobayashi - Dr. Hiyashi
- Vivien Straus - Nurse
- Janet MacLachlan - Cathy
- Terri Hanauer - Janet
- Deborah Harmon - Terri
- Mary Beth Hurt - Wendy Scott
- Robert Desiderio - Doctor Radburn
- Mimi Kennedy - Jane
- Raphael Sbarge - Dr. Nelman
- H. Richard Greene - Howard Orrison
- Robina Suwol - Gail
- John Korty
- Mindy Seeger - Bernice
- Julie Cobb - Robin
- Nancy Lenehan - Dinah
- John M. Jackson - David
- Director(s):
- John Korty
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