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The Burning Bed is both a 1980 non-fiction book by Faith McNulty about battered housewife Francine Hughes, and a 1984 TV-movie adaptation written by Rose Leiman Goldemberg.
- Faith McNulty
- Crime Drama
- 1980
Oct 8, 1984 · Based on a true story, this 1984 drama stars Farrah Fawcett as a woman who sets fire to her husband's bed while he sleeps. The movie explores the cycle of violence, the legal system and the public reaction to her confession and trial.
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- Biography, Crime, Drama
- Robert Greenwald
- 1984-10-08
Francine Moran Hughes (later Wilson; August 17, 1947 – March 22, 2017) was an American woman who, after thirteen years of domestic abuse, set fire to the bed in which her live-in ex-husband Mickey Hughes was sleeping, on March 9, 1977, in Dansville, Michigan.
Jul 9, 2020 · Hughes’s story has been told before—the new “Burning Bed” documentary borrows its title from the journalist Faith McNulty’s 1980 book about the Hugheses and from the 1984 TV-movie adaptation,...
Mar 21, 2019 · Francine Hughes killed her abusive husband in 1977 and became a symbol of the fight against domestic violence. Learn how her case inspired a national movement that created shelters, laws and awareness for women like her.
The Burning Bed. After marrying her high school sweetheart, a woman falls into a marriage of constant abuse and terror until her desperation from a failed social welfare system and the need to protect her three children forces her to react with the ultimate revenge. HD. 3,207 IMDb 7.2 1 h 35 min 1984. X-Ray 7+.
Farrah Fawcett astounded critics with the heretofore unplumbed depths of her performing abilities, playing a battered wife charged with her husband's murder after setting his bed afire following years of beatings and humiliations.
