Family Reunion (1981)
- Director(s):
- Fielder Cook
Synopsis of Family Reunion
Written for television by Allan Sloane, Family Reunion stars Bette Davis as an ageing New England schoolteacher who is given an "unlimited" bus ticket as a retirement present. She uses this gift to visit the farthest-flung members of her long-estranged family. In her absence, Davis' small town falls prey to corruptive influences, but with the help of her more honest relatives (four generations' worth, including Bette's real-life grandson J. Ashley Hyman), everything is resolved at the annual Founder's Day gathering. Family Reunion originally aired in two parts, on October 11 and 12, 1981; the preponderance of Davis' family members and unresolved plot strands would seem to suggest that this 4-hour film was intended as a series pilot. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Family Reunion
- Bette Davis - Elizabeth Winfield
- Roberts Blossom - Phil King
- Sally Chamberlain - Judge Sommers32
- Beth Ehlers - Janice Lyman
- Julie Garfield - Girl on bus
- David Huddleston - Sen. Chester Winfield
- Jeff McCracken - Max Winfield
- Adam Redfield - George Winfield IV
- Paul Rudd - Lane Lyman
- Kathryn Walker - Louisa King
- Frederikke Borge - Madge Winfield
- Charles Brown - Sam Baker
- J. Ashley Hyman - Richard Cooper
- Tom Brennan - School principal
- Roy Dotrice - Lester Frye
- Robert Fields - George Winfield III
- Paul Hecht - Vernon Markham
- Anne Lange - Carol Lyman
- Sally Prager - Susan Lyman
- David Rounds
- John Shea - James Cookman
- Roberta Wallach - Jessica Winfield
- Christopher Murray - Arthur Lyman
- Director(s):
- Fielder Cook
- Writer(s):
- Allan Sloane
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