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Filmmaker: Beth Brickell
VHS - $ 50.00
Price listed includes public performance license.
Mariette Hartley stars in this powerful drama about a successful actress who returns home for her father's funeral and comes to accept herself and better understand her complicated relationship wither her mother. A Rainy Day provides rich material for discussion of family dynamics, personal values and self-awareness.

Starring Mariette Hartley, Collin Wilcox, Erik Holland and Tracy Gold.

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Click here for information about Beth Brickell's other film, Summer's End

Running time: 30 min, Year released: 1979
Close captioned?: N, Color?: Y
Avail. formats: 16mm,VHS
ISBN: 1-55974-089-2
Language: English, Subtitled?: N
For classroom?: Y, Study Guide?: N
Grade level: 7th and up

Reviews:

"...a story that touches the emotions, brings tears to the eyes and reaches into the heart for understanding and love."
--The New York Daily News

"This moving film will be riveting viewing for public library audiences and will be a noteworthy short fiction selection for high school and college film students."
--Booklist

"A strinking view of ther importance of family relationships in the formation of a child's personality. good motivation material for discussion on human values and family relations."
--Landers Film Reviews

"...a superb half hour, unique in film or TV."
--Christian Science Monitor

Other Credits:

Written, Produced and Directed by Beth Brickell
Starring Mariette Hartley, Collin Wilcox, Erik Holland and a young Tracy Gold.
First Prize Winner, USA Film Festival, Dallas
Cine Golden Eagle Award
Bronze Award, Houston International Film Festival
This title can also be found in: Acting & Actors, Artists, Musicians & Performers, CINE Golden Eagle Award Winner, Death & Bereavement, Family Issues, Fictional Films, Motherhood, Parenting, Short Films, Women's Studies
 

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