Baby Girl Scott (1987)

John Lithgow, Mary Beth Hurt, Linda Kelsey, Robert Desiderio, Ronny Cox ... see more  , Mimi Kennedy , Robert Bruce , Julie Cobb , Terri Hanauer , Deborah Harmon , John M. Jackson , Nancy Lenehan , Janet MacLachlan , Raphael Sbarge , Mindy Seeger , Armin Shimerman , Vivien Straus , John Korty , Dian Kobayashi , Robina Suwol , Michael Horton , H. Richard Greene

This heartrending TV movie stars John Lithgow and Mary Beth Hurt as the parents of a severely handicapped premature infant. Weighing a scant 20 ounces at birth, the baby girl has no esophagus and very... read more  few signs of being able to stay alive without artificial assistance. The desperate couple sign away the responsibility of their daughter to the doctors, who feel that they can pull the girl through with extensive experimental medical work. Within a week of this agreement, the cost to the couple is $71,000, an amount that will triple before the situation can be legally resolved. Though not based on any factual case, Baby Girl Scott maintains an uncomfortable reality throughout. The film first aired on May 24, 1987. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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