Stone Pillow (1985)

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The ads for The Stone Pillow tended to suggest that this TV movie was Lucille Ball's dramatic debut--completely ignoring the fact that Ball had started out as a "straight" actress in the 1930s who only occasionally played comedy until I Love Lucy came along. Whatever the case, the Ball we see in Stone Pillow is a cranky bag lady, fiercely independent and violently resistant to do-gooders who try to alter her homeless status. Daphne Zuniga plays an idealistic social worker who tries to get Ball off the streets. It is only after watching several of her fellow indigents die where they sleep that Ball agrees to give up her "stone pillow." Though meant to be intensely dramatic, The Stone Pillow looks more like an elongated I Love Lucy sketch in which Ball dresses up like a tramp in order to meet Red Skelton (or somebody). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Director(s):: George Schaefer

Format(s):: DVD
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Synopsis of Stone Pillow

Theatrical Feature Running Time:: 94 mins

Complete Cast of Stone Pillow

Lucille Ball - Florabelle
Imogene Bliss - Violet
Gloria Cromwell - Bus Terminal Matron
Patrick Kilpatrick - Young Thug
Stefan Schnabel - Mr. Berman
Ray Serra - Stan
Josephine Nichols - Bag Lady in Ladies' Rm.
Pat McNamara - Daggett
Rebecca Schull - Mrs. Nelson
Stephen Lang - Tim

Daphne Zuniga - Carrie Lang
William Converse-Roberts - Max
Anna Maria Horsford - Collins
Patricia O'Connell - Hargrove Shelter Guard
Edward Seamon - Al
Peter Phillips - Bus Driver
Susan Batson - Ruby
Mary Lou Rosato - Bus Terminal Cop
John Ramsey - Older Thug

Director(s):: George Schaefer

Producer(s):: Terry Donnelly, George Schaefer

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	Perri L.

3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

Lucille was much more than comedy. Stone Pillow is the venue that proves this. This movie should have been recognized more for what is was which was a very dramatic display of whom is living on our streets of America that is forgotten and ignored. Though this is not a documentary by no means it is a very plausible story of one woman that could be true and most likely is.

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	Natalie S.

3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

And a must for younger people, to instil a sense of "real" reality. It is a movie that will make you really think about the many homeless people out there in society. I have waited years to see this again and I am so happy it has finally been released to DVD.