The Cracker Factory is an American television film directed by Burt Brinckerhoff. The teleplay by Richard Shapiro is based on the best-selling 1977 novel by Joyce Rebeta-Burditt. The film was broadcast by ABC on March 16, 1979.
The Cracker Factory | |
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Genre | Drama |
Based on | 1977 novel by Joyce Rebeta-Burditt |
Written by | Joyce Burditt (novel) (as Joyce Rebeta-Burditt) Richard Alan Shapiro (as Richard Shapiro) |
Directed by | Burt Brinckerhoff |
Starring | Natalie Wood |
Music by | Billy Goldenberg |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Executive producers | Tony Converse Roger Gimbel |
Producers | Richard Alan Shapiro (producer) (as Richard Shapiro) John A. Martinelli (associate producer) |
Cinematography | Michel Hugo |
Editor | John A. Martinelli |
Running time | 100 min. |
Production company | EMI Films |
Original release | |
Network | ABC |
Release | March 16, 1979 |
Alcoholic Cleveland housewife Cassie Barrett is institutionalized in a psychiatric ward after experiencing a nervous breakdown in the supermarket. We learn this is the latest in a series of hospitalizations from which Cassie emerges supposedly in control of her life but actually still teetering on the edge. During this latest stay, she develops a romantic crush on psychiatrist Edwin Alexander and a close relationship with night supervisor Tinkerbell, both of whom help her take steps toward facing her inner demons and learning to live with sobriety.
Wood was signed in December 1978.[1]