A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story
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A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story is a 1989 NBC
TV-movie based on the 1984 case Thurman v. City of Torrington
. The film stars Nancy McKeon
as Tracey; Dale Midkiff
as Buck; and Bruce Weitz
as Tracey's lawyer, Burton Weinstein.
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
TV-movie based on the 1984 case Thurman v. City of Torrington
Thurman v. City of Torrington
Thurman v. City of Torrington, DC, 595 F.Supp. 1521 was a court decision concerning Tracey Thurman, a Connecticut homemaker who sued the city police department in Torrington, Connecticut, claiming a failure of equal protection under the law against her abusive husband Charles "Buck" Thurman...
. The film stars Nancy McKeon
Nancy McKeon
Nancy Justine McKeon is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Jo Polniaczek on the NBC sitcom The Facts of Life.-Early life & career:...
as Tracey; Dale Midkiff
Dale Midkiff
Dale Alan Midkiff is an American actor.-Early life:Midkiff was born in Chance, Maryland, the son of Joyce and Thomas Midkiff. He attended Edgewood High School near Baltimore. His first acting experience came playing Jack in a production of Jack and the Beanstalk for a local children's theater. His...
as Buck; and Bruce Weitz
Bruce Weitz
Bruce Peter Weitz is an American actor. He is perhaps best-known for his role as Sgt. Michael "Mick" Belker in the 1980s TV series Hill Street Blues for which he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 1984.-Early life:Weitz was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, the son...
as Tracey's lawyer, Burton Weinstein.