Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure (1989) is a dramatic television film for ABC, based on the true story of the rescue of 18-month-old Jessica McClure from a well. It featured, as extras, many participants in the actual rescue and its coverage.
Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure | |
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Genre | Drama |
Written by | David Eyre, Jr. |
Directed by | Mel Damski |
Starring | Beau Bridges Pat Hingle Patty Duke |
Music by | Mark Snow |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Executive producer | Patricia Clifford |
Producer | Diana Kerew |
Cinematography | Shelly Johnson |
Editor | Ron Binkowski |
Running time | 100 min. |
Production companies | Campbell Soup Company Dick Berg-Stonehenge Productions Interscope Productions Radar Pictures Stonehenge Entertainment |
Original release | |
Network | ABC |
Release | May 21, 1989 |
Based on the true story of Jessica McClure, the child who fell into an abandoned water well while playing in her aunt's backyard in Midland, Texas. She was stuck in the well 22 feet down and it took rescuers 58 hours to get her out. There was fear that if they shook the ground too much with machinery they could cause her to fall further down and die. Rescuers managed to successfully excavate alongside the well shaft and bring her to safety.
Although it is supposed to be set in Midland, Texas, the entire filming took place in a suburban backyard of Los Angeles, California.