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  1. Apr 2, 2001 · Midwives: Directed by Glenn Jordan. With Sissy Spacek, Peter Coyote, Terry Kinney, Alison Pill. A midwife in rural Vermont is wrongly accused of murder in the death of one of her patients by the woman's husband.

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    • Crime, Drama
    • Glenn Jordan
    • 2001-04-02
  2. Midwives is a 2001 American television film, starring Sissy Spacek, Peter Coyote, Terry Kinney, Alison Pill and Piper Laurie. It was directed by Glenn Jordan. The film is based in the 1997 novel Midwives written by Chris Bohjalian. It was Lifetime's 100th Original Movie and had the highest rating in the network's history.

  3. Adaptation of Chris Bohjalian's novel about Sibyl Danforth, a midwife from a small Vermont village who faces the nightmare of having to choose a baby's survival over that of a mother's and is then charged with involuntary manslaughter. The story is told through the eyes of Danforth's daughter. Sybil Danforth is a respected midwife throughout ...

    • Glenn Jordan
    • Sissy Spacek
  4. Oct 20, 1998 · Midwives. by Chris Bohjalian. Announced October 28, 1998. About the Book. On an icy winter night of 1981 in the rustic community of Reddington, Vermont, seasoned midwife Sibyl Danforth is forced to make a life-or-death decision that will change her world forever. Trapped by the weather in an isolated farmhouse, cut off from the hospital or even ...

  5. Jan 1, 2001 · His novel, Midwives,was a number one New York Times bestseller, a selection of Oprah’s Book Club, and a New England Booksellers Association Discovery pick. He is a Fellow of the Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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  6. Plot summary. On an icy winter night in an isolated house in rural Vermont, a seasoned midwife named Sibyl Danforth takes desperate measures to save a baby's life. She performs an emergency cesarean section on a mother she believes has died of a stroke. But what if Sibyl's patient wasn't dead—and Sibyl inadvertently killed her?

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  8. Reviews of Midwives by Chris Bohjalian, plus links to a book excerpt from Midwives and author biography of Chris Bohjalian.

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