Marsha Mason
Dr. Alexandra Kendall
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Promises in the Dark is a 1979 American drama film produced and directed by Jerome Hellman and written by Loring Mandel. The film stars Marsha Mason, Ned Beatty, Susan Clark, Michael Brandon, Kathleen Beller and Paul Clemens.
- $5 million
- Leonard Rosenman
- Jerome Hellman
Numbed by career demands and a recent divorce, Dr. Alexandra Kendall (Marsha Mason) hides behind a hard shell of professional detachment, until she treats Buffy Koenig (Kathleen Beller), a dying 17-year-old cancer patient who reawakens Kendall to life's possibilities.
Apr 3, 1980 · Promises in the Dark. Numbed by career demands and a recent divorce, Dr. Alexandra Kendall (Marsha Mason) hides behind a hard shell of professional detachment, until she treats Buffy Koenig (Kathleen Beller), a dying 17-year-old cancer patient who reawakens Kendall to life's possibilities.
- (329)
- Drama
- Jerome Hellman
- 1980-04-03
Nov 1, 2017 · Promises in the Dark (1979), with an original screenplay by Emmy-winning writer Loring Mandel, stars Marsha Mason as Dr. Alexandra Kendall, an emotionally-guarded doctor whose shell is broken through by her patient Elizabeth "Buffy" Koenig (Kathleen Beller), a bright, sunny high school student with bone cancer.
- Jerome Hellman
- Marsha Mason
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- 1979
- 10
- Jerome Hellman
A divorced doctor (Marsha Mason) is touched by the plight of her patient, a teenage girl (Kathleen Beller) dying of cancer.
- Drama
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A teenage girl is treated for a leg injury, but it's soon discovered she has an aggressive form of cancer, which begins taking its toll--physically and emotionally--on the victim, her family, and the female doctor who forms a bond with the youngster.
