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THE BURNING BED (1984)
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. The plot follows Hughes' trial for the murder of her husband, James Berlin "Mickey" Hughes, following her setting fire to the bed he was sleeping in at their Dansville, Michigan home on March 9, 1977, and thirteen years of physical domestic abuse at his hands.
Plot
On March 9, 1977, Francine Hughes, following thirteen years of physical domestic abuse at the hands of her husband, James Berlin "Mickey" Hughes, tells their children to put their coats on and wait for her in their car. She then pours gasoline around the bed in which Mickey is sleeping in their home in Dansville, Michigan, and sets the bed afire. After the house catches fire, Hughes drives with her children to the local police station in order to confess to the act. Hughes is tried for first degree murder, and is found by a jury of her peers to be not guilty by reason of temporary insanity. It is widely believed that the judge and the jury largely sympathized with Francine's plight and felt that Mickey's murder was a justifiable action.
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| Theme music composer | Charles Gross |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Jon Avnet Steve Tisch |
| Producer(s) | Carol Schreder Rose Leiman Goldemberg (co-producer) |
| Cinematography | Isidore Mankofsky |
| Editor(s) | Richard W. Fetterman Michael A. Stevenson |
| Running time | 95 mins |
| Production company(s) | Tisch/Avnet Productions Inc. |
| Distributor | NBC |
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| Original network | NBC |
| Original release | October 8, 1984 |
