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Highly publicized and controversial, Born Innocent was the highest-rated television movie to air in the United States in 1974. The movie deals with the physical, psychological and sexual abuse of a teenage girl, and included graphic content never before seen on American television.
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Robert Kennedy and His Times is a 1985 American television miniseries directed by Marvin J. Chomsky, based on the 1978 Robert F. Kennedy biography of the same name by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. [1]
Robert Christiansen, right, and Rick Rosenberg are the co-producers of " Robert Kennedy and His Times." Photo measures 8 x 10 in.
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Divorced father Thomas Hacklin discovers, on visiting his children, that his ex-wife's residence has been abandoned; he is unable to locate or contact them. He is mystified after approaching the authorities, who refuse to assist, but speculates when he becomes aware that her new husband is in the United States Federal Witness Protection Program. As...
James Caanas Thomas Hacklin, Jr.Robert Viharoas Jack ScoleseBarbra Rae as Ruthie HacklinHide in Plain Sightreceived a mixed reception from critics. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film two out of four stars and praised the acting, but ultimately viewed the film negatively, calling it "a frustrating real-life thriller that makes the fatal mistake of being more true to real life than to the demands of narrative." Variety a...
The film was Caan's passion project, taking him two years to make. It was his intention to release the film without a music score, but MGM executives prevailed.
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Released on VHS: 1981; 1992, MGM/UA Home Video and DVD: 2010, Warner Home Video(Warner Archive).
Hide in Plain Sight is a 1980 American drama film directed by and starring James Caan with the story line based on an actual case from the files of New York attorney Salvatore R. Martoche, who represented Tom Leonhard, a real-life victim from Buffalo, New York who had sued to recover contact with his children, estranged by the culpability of the...
Christiansen, along with his producing partner Rick Rosenberg at Chris/Rose productions, won an Emmy Award in 1974 in the category of Outstanding Special - Comedy or Drama for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (with Cicely Tyson). The program won a total of nine Primetime Emmys.
M-G-M bought the film rights to Waller’s book at the end of 1976, and the following April announced that the team of Robert Christiansen and Rick Rosenberg would produce the film, from a screenplay by Spencer Eastman (1940–1988).
