Do You Know the Muffin Man?
| Do You Know the Muffin Man? | |
|---|---|
 DVD release | |
| Directed by | Gilbert Cates |
| Produced by |
Jon Avnet Daniel Freudenberger Jordan Kerner Robert Z. Shapiro |
| Written by | Daniel Munchausen |
| Starring |
Pam Dawber Brian Bonsall Stephen Dorff John Shea Matthew Laurance Dee Dee Rescher Anthony Geary Natalie West |
| Music by | Lee Holdridge |
| Edited by | Peter E. Berger |
| Distributed by |
CBS Productions Direct Source Label |
Release dates |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Do You Know the Muffin Man? is a CBS Network docudrama starring Pam Dawber. It was directed by Gilbert Cates and also stars Stephen Dorff, John Shea, Anthony Geary, Dee Dee Rescher and Brian Bonsall.[1]
The critically praised film, about child abuse in a community day care center,[2] was ranked as the 8th most-watched television program of the week by the Nielsen Ratings after its initial airing on October 22, 1989.[3] It was released at the height of the day-care sex-abuse hysteria in the United States.
Summary
Roger Dollison, a police officer, and his wife Kendra are living the American dream. They have two children, Teddy and Sandy, and a lovely home and a dog named Rex. What they know and how they live as a family is irreparably changed one day when it is discovered that a classmate of Teddy's is the apparent victim of sexual abuse and molestation at the respected neighborhood daycare center. Like all other parents, the Dollisons are tormented: "we should have known, we should have seen," but their devastation is complete when Teddy tells his own story, one he promised his abusers he would never tell.[4]
References
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- ↑ "Details of abuse overkill in 'Muffin Man'". Boca Raton News. October 20, 1989.
- ↑ "Earthquake Cuts Ratings of Networks". The New York Times. October 25, 1989.
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097214/plotsummary
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