What Makes a Family (2001)

Film details

Featuring

Brooke Shields Anne Meara Cherry Jones
Country

USA
Year

2001
Genre

Drama
Type

Television
Category

Fiction

Synopsis

TV movie. A lesbian, who has been artifically inseminated, dies after giving birth. Her partner is then involved in a legal fight to regain custody of the baby from the dead woman's parents.

Cast & Credits

Cast
- - Janine Nielssen
    
    Brooke Shields
  - Evelyn Cataldi
    
    Anne Meara
  - Sandy Cataldi
    
    Cherry Jones
  - Frank Cataldi
    
    Al Waxman
  - Nora
    
    Melanie Nicholls-King
  - O'Brien
    
    Dean Mcdermott
  - Claire
    
    Roberta Maxwell
  - Melissa
    
    Joanne Vannicola
  - Hether
    
    Jordy Benattar
  - Judge Black
    
    Sean McCann
  - Peter
    
    Stewart Arnott
  - Martin Crane
    
    Philip Williams
  - Judge Shales
    
    Jayne Eastwood
Credits
- Unknown:
  - Director
    
    Maggie Greenwald
  - Screenplay
    
    Robert L. Freedman

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