Picking Up the Pieces

• Director: Paul Wendkos
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• Genre: Drama
• Movie Type: Feminist Film, Marriage Drama
• Themes: Starting Over, Crumbling Marriages
• Main Cast: Margot Kidder, David Ackroyd, James Farentino, Ari Meyers, Joyce Van Patten
• Release Year: 1985
• Country: US
• Run Time: 100 minutes

Plot

Picking Up the Pieces is a TV movie firmly locked in mid-1980s sensibilities: beware your husband, ladies, he's pond scum. Margot Kidder, a high school guidance counselor and mother of two, is the wife of wealthy surgeon and all-around heel David Ackroyd. After 17 years of emotional abuse, Kidder agrees with Ackroyd that divorce is the answer. She returns home from work to find the house stripped and her valuables gone; they've been seized by her husband, who is perfectly within his legal rights because their state has no community property laws. As Kidder battles her ex in court, she struggles to regain her own self-esteem. James Farentino costars in Picking Up the Pieces as the compassionate widower with whom Kidder finds happiness. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Margot Kidder
• David Ackroyd
• James Farentino
• Ari Meyers
• Joyce Van Patten

Herb Edelman; Robin Gammell; Christopher Daniel Barnes

Credit

Jack Senter - Art Director, Mina Mittleman - Costume Designer, Paul Wendkos - Director, Steven Cohen - Editor, Paul Chihara - Composer (Music Score), Philip H. Lathrop - Cinematographer, Dorothea Petrie - Producer, Gordon Cotler - Screenwriter

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