Love Child
5.8
“At 19 they took away her freedom. At 20 they tried to take her baby.”
The true story of Terry Jean Moore, a young woman who is imprisoned for seven years on account of a "five-dollar" robbery. While in prison, she gets pregnant by a jailer and must fight to keep her child.
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Cast
50 people
Amy Madigan
Terry Jean Moore
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Beau Bridges
Jack Hansen
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Mackenzie Phillips
J.J.
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Albert Salmi
Capt. Ellis
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Joanna Merlin
Mrs. Sturgis
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Margaret Whitton
Jacki Steinberg
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Lewis Smith
Jesse Chaney
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Dennis Lipscomb
Arthur Brady
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Anna Maria Horsford
Mara
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Friday
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Michael Shane
Judge Hare
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Randy Lowell
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Rhea Perlman
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Larry Peerce Director · Anne Gerard Screenplay Katherine Specktor Screenplay
Worldwide gross $113K · Budget $50K · United States release October 15, 1982
Box office
Budget
$50,091
Worldwide gross
$112,940
Gross vs. budget
2.3×
Production
The Ladd Company
Production
Warner Bros. Pictures
Studio · Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · October 15, 1982
Theatrical
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