Love Child (1982 film)

Love Child
Directed by	Larry Peerce
Produced by	Paul Maslansky
Written by	Anne Gerard
Starring	Amy Madigan Beau Bridges Mackenzie Phillips Albert Salmi Joanna Merlin Margaret Whitton
Music by	Charles Fox
Cinematography	James Pergola
Edited by	Bob Wyman
Distributed by	Warner Bros. & The Ladd Company
Release date	October 15, 1982
Running time	96 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$112,940

Love Child is a 1982 biopic based on the life of Terry Jean Moore. The film stars Amy Madigan, Beau Bridges, and Mackenzie Phillips.

Terry Jean Moore (Madigan) was convicted of a crime at the age of 19 and over the time she spent in prison, she meets a guard named Jack Hansen (Bridges). The two fall in love and Moore ends up having his child. Terry has to face the possibility of losing her baby, but she takes up the fight to keep the baby.

Janet Maslin of The New York Times found the film a stretch: "Larry Peerce, who directed Love Child, tries for as much prison-movie stridency as the material will bear, but his portrait of Terry is so mild that the film's harsher touches seem gratuitous. The periodic cat-fights among the prisoners are certainly nasty, but they don't contribute to any overall continuity. ...Amy Madigan, a newcomer who plays Terry, makes her a raw-boned, angry tomboy at first; only gradually is the child-crying-out-for-help side of the character revealed. Miss Madigan seems potentially a tough, unusual actress, but Mr. Peerce keeps her at full throttle so much of the time that the performance loses its force. Her wildeyed, furious mannerisms, at first quite arresting, become familiar long before they should. Miss Madigan isn't alone in this; all of the film's characters have a tendency to come on too strong and then wear out their welcomes."

Love Child was released to DVD by Warner Home Video on June 1st, 2010 via the Warner Archive DVD-on-demand service available through Amazon.

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