Release Date

05 Apr, 1986

Runtime

01:40: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

When nobody could help her, she helped herself

Fact-based drama about the life of Marie Balter, who spent most of her young life in mental institutions. At age 16, she first attempted suicide and the next 20 years she spent in and out of the institutions. At last, a caring doctor started treating her for extreme depression and panic disorder. Weened from strong medications she had taken all her life, at age 36, she emerged for the last time and started a rehabilitation program in the home of a volunteer married couple. There she met a fellow patient with whom she developed a romantic relationship. She also started a college degree. This followed with a long-term professional success in the field of mental health.

Original Title

Nobody's Child

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Actors

Marlo Thomas

Ray Baker

Caroline Kava

Kathy Baker

Campbell Lane

Vanessa Santos

Donna Ford

William Nunn

Stefania DeStefanis

Karen Elizabeth Austin

Garwin Sanford

Joseph Golland

Sheila Moore

Antony Holland

Don MacKay

Nancy Beatty

Sandra Seacat

Todd Duckworth

Tom Heaton

Betty Phillips

Crew

Sven Nykvist

Joseph Feury

Milton Justice

Mary Calquhoun

Sid Kozak

Justis Greene

Brad Turner

Karen Robyn

T. W. Peacocke

Jean Bereziuk

Claude Hazanavicius

Colleen Nystedt

Cindy Kaplan Rooney

Jack Cooley