Cry in the Wild: The Taking of Peggy Ann (1991)
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- Charles J. Correll, Charles Correll, (more
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Cry in the Wild: The Taking of Peggy Ann eschews the usual "today's headlines" approach to fact-based TV movies. This 1991 film recounts an event which took place in Shade Gap, Pennsylvania, way back in 1966. A lunatic backwoodsman (David Morse) abducts a 17-year-old local girl (Megan Follows) and spirits her away to the deep woods. During her eight-day ordeal, Peggy Ann develops a sort of sympathy for the pathetic creature who has kidnapped her out of a misguided sense of love. Meanwhile, virtually every authority within a 50-mile radius scours the timberland in search of the girl and her captor. Whether or not Cry in the Wild: The Taking of Peggy Ann was necessary 25 years after the fact is debatable, but one can't deny that the accomplished performances of David Morse and Megan Follows smooth over the script's bumpier sections. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Megan Follows - Peggy Ann Bradnick
- Peter Fitzsimmons - Reporter #2
- Tom Atkins - Jamieson
- Jack Kehler - Eugene Bradnick
- David Soul - Terry Anderson
- Terry Ward - Reporter #1
- David Morse - Bicycle Pete
- Dion Anderson - Ruegg
- Taylor Fry - Carol Jean Bradnick
- Douglas Rowe - Tom McGinn
- Travis Swords - Mitulski
- Director(s):
- Charles J. Correll, Charles Correll
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