Rent For Their Own Good (1993)
3.4 of 5 from 45 ratings
1h 58min
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- Synopsis:
Featuring committed performances from its stars, "For Their Own Good" tells the moving true story of one woman's courageous fight to correct a terrible injustice and force a much-needed change in the law. In 1984, a ruthless corporation based in a Texas town made a humiliating demand of its female workforce: they must choose between children or their jobs. Because the toxic substances that the women handled in the course of their work might cause defects in an unborn child, the corporation ordered them to undergo compulsory sterilisation or lose their jobs. This is the true story of a crime almost beyond comprehension and the story of Sally Wheeler (Elizabeth Perkins), a woman desperate to have another child, who refused to let her anger die and endured both public humiliation and private heartache in her unrelenting fight for justice. - Actors:
- Elizabeth Perkins, Laura San Giacomo, Charles Haid, CCH Pounder, Gary Basaraba, Kelli Williams, Michael O'Neill, David Graf, Colleen Camp, Glenn Morshower, David Purdham, Hannah Eckstein, Jana Arnold, Trey Ames, Thomas Kopache, Garette Ratliff Henson, Richard Riehle, William G. Schilling, Jessie Jones, Matthew Glave
- Directors:
- Ed Kaplan
- Producers:
- Phyllis Rossheim
- Writers:
- Ed Kaplan, Clifford Campion
- Studio:
- Odyssey
- Genres:
- Drama
