Book and movie inspired by a 1977 murder related to domestic abuse
The Burning Bed
Genre
Crime Drama
Based on
The Burning Bed 1980 novel by Faith McNulty
Written by
Rose Leiman Goldemberg
Directed by
Robert Greenwald
Starring
Farrah Fawcett Paul Le Mat Richard Masur
Theme music composer
Charles Gross
Country of origin
United States
Original language
English
Production
Executive producers
Jon Avnet Steve Tisch
Producers
Carol Schreder Rose Leiman Goldemberg (co-producer)
Cinematography
Isidore Mankofsky
Editors
Richard W. Fetterman Michael A. Stevenson
Running time
95 mins
Production company
Tisch/Avnet Productions Inc.
Original release
Network
NBC
Release
October 8, 1984 (1984-10-08)
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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 after thirteen years of physical domestic abuse at his hands.
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