Patricia Brown Movies

This drama explores what has become of Russians who were welcomed to the U.S. at the height of the cold war, in 1982, as dissidents, up-and-coming intellectuals and writers. In 1992, after the dissolution of the U.S.S.R., their situation is more ambiguous, and they have become neglected relics of a previous age. After all, their claim to fame as thinkers persecuted by their home nation has ceased to exist. The parts are played by Russian immigrants from that time period, some of them experienced actors, speaking English as well as they can. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

Veronica Hamel, who'd previously played a detective on the trail of a kidnapped baby, turns kidnapper herself in the made-for-TV The Baby Snatcher. After suffering a miscarriage, Hamel becomes convinced that she will lose her husband's love. Faking a new pregnancy, Hamel allows nine months to pass, then sneaks into the hospital maternity ward and steals another woman's infant. It takes the tireless efforts of Nancy McKeon, the baby's natural mother, to track down the clever but unhinged Hamel. Amazingly based on a true story, Baby Snatcher debuted on May 3, 1992. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi