"Carrie Buck is a young intellectually disabled woman who is persuaded to fight against the courts for custody of her newborn daughter after it's taken from her since Carrie has been declared mentally incompetent to raise her baby by herself."
Marlee Matlin
as Carrie Buck
Melissa Gilbert
as Melissa Prentice
Peter Frechette
as Adam White
Pat Hingle
as Arthur Kent
Joe Inscoe
as Ian Strand
John Bennes
as Governor Trinkle
James Martin Jr.
as Campaign Manager
Elaine Nalee
as Alice Evans
Terry Loughlin
as Joseph Evans
Sharyn Greene
as Elizabeth Lake
Moses Gibson
as Feenie
Trenton McDevitt
as Gregory Lake
Tammy Arnold
as Miss Frederick
J. Michael Hunter
as Dr. Harry Laughlin
Laddy Sartin
as Journalist
Mark Jeffrey Miller
as Orderly #1
Michael Burgess
as Black Man
Nello Tare
as Willem Sherman
Ed Grady
as Chief Director
Stan Kelly
as Judge Henry
Joanne Pankow
as Matron
David Lenthall
as Professor Morgan
John David Coles
Director
Brian L. Ross
Writer
Hal Harrison
Post Production Supervisor
Janet Faust Krusi
Executive Producer
Ron Fortunato
Cinematography