Improper Channels (1981)
1h 32m
Running Time
April 17, 1981Release Date
Improper Channels (1981)
1h 32m
Running Time
April 17, 1981Release Date
Plot.
A father brings a young child to an emergency room to get treatment for a minor injury occurring in an innocent accident, but he gets accused of child abuse. Child welfare agencies commit grossly unfair over-reactions to remove the child forcibly from the Father, who must brave the arcane system to reclaim his daughter.
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Cast & Crew.
Alan Arkin
Jeffery Martley
Mariette Hartley
Diana Martley
Monica Parker
Gloria Washburn
Martin Yan
Sherman Hu
Sarah Stevens
Nancy Martley
Harry Ditson
Harold Clevish
Danny Higham
Jack
Tony Rosato
Dr. Arpenthaler
Leslie Yeo
Fred Reeves
Joyce Gordon
Dr. Peacock
Sylvia Marie Llewellyn
ER Nurse #1
Jon Slan
Executive Producer
Morrie Ruvinsky
Producer / Writer
Ruth Springford
Mrs. Wharton
Alfred Pariser
Producer
Mike Burns
Associate Producer
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
Improper Channels is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Eric Till and released in 1981.The film stars Alan Arkin as an architect named Jeff Martley, and Mariette Hartley as his estranged wife Diana. After their daughter Nancy is mildly injured in a car accident, an overzealous social worker (Monica Parker) wrongly accuses him of child abuse, and takes custody of the child away.The film received four Genie Award nominations at the 3rd Genie Awards in 1982, for Best Foreign Actor (Arkin), Best Foreign Actress (Hartley), Best Original Screenplay (Adam Arkin, Morrie Ruvinsky and Ian Sutherland) and Best Art Direction/Production Design (Ninkey Dalton and Charles Dunlop). Arkin won the award for Best Foreign Actor.
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