Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure

1989

Drama

2
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 67% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 966 966

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Director

Mel Damski Photo
Mel Damski

Top cast

Robin Gammell Photo
Robin Gammell as MSHA Investigator Thomas Kaye
Walter Olkewicz Photo
Walter Olkewicz as Police Officer Andy Glasscock
Mills Watson Photo
Mills Watson as Charles Boler
Daryl Anderson Photo
Daryl Anderson as Richard Armstrong
720p.WEB
835.18 MB
960*720
English 2.0
NR
us  
25 fps
1 hr 30 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Zorro-3 7 / 10

Only a Parent Knows

As I am a daddy, this movie was hard for me to watch.Shoot! The event was hard to hear about when it happened and I wasn't even a daddy then.There are many views of this event and many levels on which to examine it. Some of the possibly valid ways would sound mean. (For example if I wanted to, (which I don't!) I COULD say poor children die every day, and I don't know about it and don't suffer for it, the way I did for Jessica McClure, because they die in a common, rather than an unusual way, and they are further away, than she was, and don't get the expedient media attention that Jessica got. But I am not (at least not yet) that cynical. But the thing that made this movie was the SOUND of the little two-year old girl hooting and hollering up the hole, from twenty feet below. And the look on her dad's face. (There, but for the grace of God, might I be.) I don't know how I could ever endure such a thing. But all one can do is endure it.
Reviewed by les6969 6 / 10

Surprisingly Gripping

I watched this one night on TV when there wasn't much else on and wondered how they could make this film last nearly 2 hours? You get taken in by the emotion of it all, I found myself shouting at certain characters, like Mother for being so stupid to leave kids that young near a very deep well only covered by a plant pot? And the guy in charge who refused to listen to the guy offering him new water jet drilling ( maybe Jessica would have gotten out sooner? ) And then there was the guy sent to pull her out who was not strong emotionally. The only downside was the ending, it would have been good to have known more about what happened afterwards? All the acting was very good especially the actress playing the part of the mother.
Reviewed by Stibbert 6 / 10

Well worth to watch

This is a truly good movie. It has managed to captured the event and the people in a special way. The acting and directing are good and the story is well written. There is a really good score by Mark Snow too in there, but at the most intense scenes there are no music at all. I believe that it was a very good thing to cut the music as the silence made the scenes more dramatic then any musical score would.If you are a parent I believe this movie would be much harder to watch then if you're not. However, the story is touching no matter what. I'm no parent nor a very sentimental guy, but I find this movie very touching. The way people can care and the way anything is possible if you just want it bad enough.The movie brings up several interesting things. Among them the power of the media. It was the media who made this story, and so they could have turned it in any direction, really. It was the media who made people care.If you get the chance don't let this movie go unseen. Espesially if you're a parent.
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