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The Burning Bed is a 1984 television drama film starring Farrah Fawcett, Paul Le Mat, and Richard Masur. Based on the 1980 non-fiction novel of the same name by Faith McNulty, it follows battered housewife Francine Hughes and her trial for the murder of her husband, James Berlin "Mickey" Hughes.
The Burning Bed: Directed by Robert Greenwald. With Farrah Fawcett, Paul Le Mat, Richard Masur, Grace Zabriskie. An abused battered wife has had enough of her husband beating up on her. Everywhere she turns for help, there's not much anyone will do.
The Burning Bed. 1984 · 1 hr 36 min. TV-MA. Drama · Crime. A battered wife sets her husband on fire one night after living with his beatings and humiliations for years. Subtitles: English. Starring: James Callahan Farrah Fawcett Paul Le Mat. Directed by: Robert Greenwald.
Francine Moran Hughes (later Wilson; August 17, 1947 – March 22, 2017) [1] was an American woman who, after thirteen years of domestic abuse, set fire to the bed in which her live-in ex-husband Mickey Hughes was sleeping, on March 9, 1977, in Dansville, Michigan. Mickey was killed and the house destroyed in the resulting fire.
Mar 21, 2019 · Francine Hughes’ life story reads like a nightmare, and the book based on her ordeal, Faith McNulty’s The Burning Bed is as much a horror story as true crime reportage.
The Burning Bed. After marrying her high school sweetheart, a woman falls into a marriage of constant abuse and terror until her desperation from a failed social welfare system and the need to protect her three children forces her to react with the ultimate revenge. HD.
The Burning Bed. Francine Hughes (Farrah Fawcett) suffers the abuse of her husband, Mickey (Paul Le Mat), for almost a decade because she cannot find any help.
Jan 1, 1980 · The Burning Bed is the true story of Francine Hughes who killed her abusive ex-husband, Mickey, after enduring over a dozen years of emotional, financial and physical abuse. On March 9, 1977, in her home in Lansing, Michigan, Francine Hughes poured gas around her ex-husband's bed and lit it on fire.
After years of beatings and terror, Francine Hughes set fire to her abuser's bed while he slept. Her confession and subsequent murder trial held the nation enthralled. A dramatic story of a woman pushed over the edge.
Jan 1, 1989 · The Burning Bed is the true story of Francine Hughes who killed her abusive ex-husband, Mickey, after enduring over a dozen years of emotional, financial and physical abuse. On March 9, 1977, in her home in Lansing, Michigan, Francine Hughes poured gas around her ex-husband's bed and lit it on fire.