Made for TV in 1984, The Dollmaker is based on the novel of the same name and stars Jane Fonda.
Fonda plays a Kentucky woman whose family relocates to Detroit in the 1940s and struggles to make ends meet.
Money is tight, sure, but everything goes to hell in a handbasket when Fonda's little girl wanders onto the railroad tracks and gets hit.
The scenes following were so traumatic, as the family rushes the girl to the hospital and is all but turned away, that I mentally blocked out this movie for years.
Jane Fonda gave a remarkable performance in this little Americana film, after years of being labeled anti-American for her wartime fraternizing with the Viet Cong.
IMDB.com says Fonda took a long trip on Dolly Parton's tourbus months prior to filming this movie . . . to study Dolly's Appalachian accent, I suppose.
Did you see The Dollmaker? What did you think about it?
