The Cracker Factory (1979)

Directed by

Burt Brinckerhoff

Genre

tv movie, drama

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 40m

Rating

9.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman in her late 20s is admitted to a psychiatric hospital for alcoholism and a nervous breakdown. The film follows her experiences with therapy, other patients, and her own inner turmoil as she struggles toward recovery.

tenserawemotionally drainingconfessionalclaustrophobicintrospectiveunflinchingsobering

What happens

The Cracker Factory is an American television film directed by Burt Brinckerhoff. The teleplay by Richard Shapiro is based on the best-selling 1977 novel by Joyce Rebeta-Burditt. The film was broadcast by ABC on March 16, 1979. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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