A caring community and variety of people nation-wide come together to rescue a baby who is trapped in an abandoned water well, but they have a short time before something bad might happen.
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Title: Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure (TV Movie 1989)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Beau Bridges | ... | Police Chief Richard Czech | |
| Pat Hingle | ... | Fire Chief James Roberts | |
| Roxana Zal | ... | Cissy Mcclure | |
| Will Oldham | ... | Chip Mcclure | |
| Whip Hubley | ... | Robert O'Donnell | |
| Robin Gammell | ... | Msha Investigator Thomas Kaye | |
| Walter Olkewicz | ... | Police Officer Andy Glasscock | |
| Rudy Ramos | ... | Police Officer Manny Beltran | |
| Jack Rader | ... | Public Information Officer James White | |
| Guy Stockwell | ... | Bill Jones | |
| Daryl Anderson | ... | Richard Armstrong | |
| Mills Watson | ... | Charles Boler | |
| Bo Foxworth | ... | Steve Forbes | |
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Robin Frates | ... | Jamie Moore |
| Don Hood | ... | Fire Captain Alan Doyle | |
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Based on the true story of Jessica McClure who fell into a well while playing in her aunt's backyard. She was stuck in the well 22 feet down and it took rescuers 58 hours to get her out. There was fear that if they shook the earth too much with machinery, it could cause her to fall further down and die. Written by Jason Ihle <jrihl@conncoll.edu>
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21 May 1989 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Campbell Soup Company, Dick Berg-Stonehenge Productions, Interscope Productions See more »
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This is a truly good movie. It has managed to captured the event and the people in a special way. The acting and directing are good and the story is well written. There is a really good score by Mark Snow too in there, but at the most intense scenes there are no music at all. I believe that it was a very good thing to cut the music as the silence made the scenes more dramatic then any musical score would.
If you are a parent I believe this movie would be much harder to watch then if you're not. However, the story is touching no matter what. I'm no parent nor a very sentimental guy, but I find this movie very touching. The way people can care and the way anything is possible if you just want it bad enough.
The movie brings up several interesting things. Among them the power of the media. It was the media who made this story, and so they could have turned it in any direction, really. It was the media who made people care.
If you get the chance don't let this movie go unseen. Espesially if you're a parent.