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Wildflower (1991)

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Film details

Featuring

Patricia Arquette Beau Bridges Susan Blakely
Country

USA
Year

1991
Genre

Drama
Type

Television
Category

Fiction

Synopsis

Cable television film set in 1938. Brother and sister Ellie and Sammy Perkins live in a small town in the Southern States with their grandmother and semi- alcoholic father. Ellie discovers a teenage girl, Alice Guthrie, locked in a shed on a nearby farm and learns that she is hard of hearing and epileptic and so disowned and shut up by her embarrassed stepfather. Ellie resuces her and pays a doctor to treat her, selling her dead mother's locket to pay him. With new friends and better treatment Alice begins to blossom out.

Cast & Credits

Cast
- - Alice Guthrie
    
    Patricia Arquette
  - Jack Perkins
    
    Beau Bridges
  - Mrs Guthrie
    
    Susan Blakely
  - Sammy Perkins
    
    William McNamara
  - Ellie Perkins
    
    Reese Witherspoon
  - Guthrie
    
    Maxwell, Norman 'Max'
  - Bessie
    
    Collin Wilcox Paxton
  - Doc Murphy
    
    Richard K. Olsen
  - cast member
    
    Allison Smith
  - cast member
    
    Heather Lynch
  - cast member
    
    Randy T. Williams
  - cast member
    
    Charles Mclawhorn
  - cast member
    
    Rob Priester
  - cast member
    
    Rick Warner
  - cast member
    
    Ennis Atkins
  - cast member
    
    Edward Michael Hewett
  - cast member
    
    Mary Page
  - cast member
    
    Michael Holton-Murphy
Credits
- Unknown:
  - Director
    
    Diane Keaton
  - Production Company
    
    Freed/Laufer Productions
  - Production Company
    
    Inc. Hearst Entertainment
  - Production Company
    
    The Polone Company
  - Executive Producer
    
    Judith A. Polone
  - Executive Producer
    
    Richard Freed
  - Executive Producer
    
    Ira Laufer
  - Producer
    
    Carroll Newman
  - Co-producer
    
    Joe Kelly
  - Screenplay and original novel
    
    Sara Flanigan
  - Director of Photography
    
    Janusz Kaminski
  - Editor
    
    Stephen Rivkin
  - Production Designer
    
    Garreth Stover
  - Costume Designer
    
    Deena Appel
  - Music
    
    Jon Gilutin
  - Music
    
    Ken Edwards
  - Sound
    
    Steve Aaron

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