The Burning Bed (1984)
1h 40m
Running Time
October 8, 1984Release Date
The Burning Bed (1984)
1h 40m
Running Time
October 8, 1984Release Date
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Plot.
An abused battered wife has had enough of husband beating up on her. Everywhere she turns for help, there's not much anyone will do. After he rapes her one night, she sets the bed on fire with him in it asleep.
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Cast & Crew.
Farrah Fawcett
Francine Hughes
Paul Le Mat
Mickey Hughes
Richard Masur
Aryon Greydanus
Grace Zabriskie
Flossie Hughes
Penelope Milford
Gaby
Christa Denton
Christy - Age 12
James T. Callahan
Berlin Hughes
Gary Grubbs
District Attorney
James Hampton
Police Witness
David Friedman
Jimmy - Age 10
David Andrews
Wimpy Hughes
Virgil Frye
Virg
Robert Greenwald
Director
Dixie K. Wade
Hazel Moran
Rose Leiman Goldemberg
Writer
Heather Rich
Christy, Age 6
Faith McNulty
Writer
Justin Gocke
Jimmy, Age 4
Carol Schreder
Producer
Elizabeth Lyn Fraser
Nicole
Charles Gross
Composer
Ben Fuhrman
Henry Eckworth
Kimberley Dashiell
Ann
Isidore Mankofsky
Cinematographer
Fred D. Scott
Mr. Barlow
Richard Fetterman
Editor
Patricia George
Female Deputy
Michael A. Stevenson
Editor
Hoolihand Burke
Matron
Ross Brown
CastingDirector
Sherry McFarland
Ellen
Mary West
CastingDirector
Gilmer McCormick
Salesperson
Anna Pagan
Clair
Sonny Carl Davis
Asst. Prosecutor
Delana Michaels
Miss Connor
Greg Norberg
Ernest
Jeremy Ross
Judge Hotchkiss
Wayne Knight
Juror (uncredited)
David Ward
Courtroom Security Officer (uncredited)
Steve Tisch
Executive Producer
Fred C. Blau Jr.
Makeup Artist
Herman F. Zimmerman
Art Direction
Jon Avnet
Executive Producer
Robert J. Doherty
Second Assistant Director
Chris Howell
Stunt Double
Mary Ann Good
Set Decoration
David E. Campbell
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
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Wiki.
The Burning Bed is both a 1980 non-fiction book by Faith McNulty about battered housewife Francine Hughes, and a 1984 TV-movie adaptation written by Rose Leiman Goldemberg. The plot follows Hughes' trial for the murder of her husband, James Berlin "Mickey" Hughes, following her setting fire to the bed he was sleeping in at their Dansville, Michigan home on March 9, 1977, and thirteen years of physical domestic abuse at his hands.