In the Best Interest of the Children (1992)

Directed by

Michael Ray Rhodes

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 36m

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman with manic-depression fights to keep custody of her five children after they are placed in foster care. The story follows her struggles with mental illness and the legal system.

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What happens

In the Best Interest of the Children is a 1992 American made-for-television fact-based drama film starring Sarah Jessica Parker who plays a woman struggling with manic-depression while raising her five children. This leads to the children eventually being taken from her and put in foster care. The film originally premiered on NBC on Sunday, February 16, 1992. The film was partially shot in Marengo, Iowa, roughly 30 miles west of Iowa City. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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