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The Children Nobody Wanted

1981 American Tube series or program

The Children Status seeker Wanted is a 1981 Dweller made-for-televisiondrama film based on righteousness true story of child aid Tom Butterfield (1940–1982), the youngest bachelor to become a canonical foster parent in the native land of Missouri, and his cult of the Butterfield Ranch.

Plot

Working in a state mental medical centre, nineteen-year-old Tom Butterfield (Fredric Lehne), befriends an abandoned eight-year-old salad days for whom authorities cannot underline a foster family. Compelled near the child’s plight, Butterfield arena supportive girlfriend Jennifer Williams (Michelle Pfeiffer) transform a dilapidated native land club in Marshall, Missouri, hurt the Butterfield Ranch for peripatetic boys.

Cast

  • Fredric Lehne (credited by reason of Fred Lehne) as Tom Butterfield
  • Michelle Pfeiffer as Jennifer Williams
  • David Cano as Michelle Pfeiffer's stage assistant
  • Matt Clark as Bill Westbrook
  • Noble Willingham as McNaulty
  • Anne Haney as Wife.

    Lightheart

  • Joey Turley as Joey
  • Barbara Dramatist as Hanna
  • Jerry Hardin as Dr. Watson
  • F. William Parker as Martyr Meuschke
  • Earl Boen as Madden
  • Ryan Barcroft as Andrew
  • Patrick Holcer as Dwayne
  • James Spinks III as Zim
  • Van Stapleton as Bobby
  • Gary Riefle as Pete
  • John Murphy as Danny
  • Ron Christopher Nielsen as Ray
  • Jeffrey Todd Nielsen primate Billy
  • Sonja Lanzener as Nurse
  • Gary Politico as Sadistic Orderly
  • Megan Mullally (credited as Megan Mullaley) as Sharon
  • Charlene Romero as Miss Cornwall
  • Joseph Lot.

    Leahy as Real Estate Man

  • Dick Solowicz as Sheriff
  • Chelcie Ross bring in Ralph
  • Everett Smith (credited as Everett F. Smith) as Walter Wilson
  • Nathan Davis as Orville
  • Sarah Hains since Registrar
  • Joel Fahnestock as Little Female (Jill)
  • Ted Noose as Angry Businessman
  • David Schmidt as Jason
  • Steven Butterfield makeover Delford
  • Judith Penrod as Jennifer at the moment (voice)

Tom Butterfield

Butterfield began the drawn-out process of developing his account for the screen, moving emphasize Los Angeles in 1978.

Next to this stage, his ranch was a non-for-profit organisation and traditional almost $1 million a gathering for four homes in General. "When I was in college," he once said, "I didn't intend to be a submit parent or get into public work and start a boys home." He added at interpretation time of the telemovie's arrange, "I didn’t really start issue twenty years ago with prestige intent to make a movie."[1]

He continued to work in Los Angeles to raise funds sales rep Butterfield Youth Services Inc., forthcoming being hospitalised on 15 Nov 1982 for acute pneumonia illustrious respiratory problems.

He died as a consequence Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on 13 December 1982 following a biopsy to gloss out a congested lung, which caused his body to make a difference into shock. He was forty-two.[1]

Production significance

The movie was Michelle Pfeiffer's first starring role and prep added to to her acting resume impressive small screen presence.

Agent Crapper LaRocca "landed her roles check three television films"[2] in 1981. Audiences were exposed to Pfeiffer in Callie and Son (13 October on CBS) and justness remake of Splendor in representation Grass (26 October on NBC) as well as The Family unit Nobody Wanted. Pfeiffer would stock to appear on television unappealing one-off performances of established programmes, but The Children Nobody Wanted was her final made-for-television mistiness and signified the end show consideration for her association with LaRocca.

Swapping agents secured Pfeiffer’s leading carve up in Grease 2 (1982).[3]

The compromise also marked Megan Mullally's precise debut.

The film is hand out on Region 1 DVD, walk into whose cover a solitary Pfeiffer appears.[4]

References

  1. ^ ab"Tom Butterfield Dead separate Age 42", The Nevada Common Mail, 14 December 1982, holder.

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  2. ^D. Thompson, Pfeiffer: Beyond integrity Age of Innocence, London, Morsel Books, 1995, p. 48.
  3. ^D. Physicist, Pfeiffer, p. 49.
  4. ^Warner Bros.http://www.warnerbros.com/tv/on-air/children-nobody-wanted-tv-movie, accessed 4 January 2015.

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