Deep in My Heart
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Anita Addison
Robert Thomas
Brooke Belvedere
Mpho Koaho
Keenan Macwilliam
Moynan King
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Traces the journey of a black baby who is born to a white woman in the early 1960s, given up for adoption and 34 years later reunited with her birth mother. In 1961, Gerry Cummins is raped by a black man near her home in Boston. When Gerry discovers that she is pregnant, she and her husband Bob hope that Bob is the father of the baby. Gerry and Bob are faced with a painful decision when their child is born black. They baptize her Barbara Ann Cummins, then give her to a black foster mother, Corrine Burrell. Corrine becomes Barbara's mother for the next seven years until social workers determine that Barbara must be removed from the "ghetto." Barbara goes to live with a white couple, Annalise and Paul Jurgenson, in Milwaukee, but the unhappy couple soon divorce. A teenage Barbara becomes pregnant by her high school sweetheart Don, marries him and moves in with his family. Years later, Barbara is encouraged by her doctor to find her birth mother.
Director
Anita Addison
Cast
Robert Thomas
Brooke Belvedere
Mpho Koaho
Keenan Macwilliam
Moynan King
Albert Schultz
Merwin Mondesir
Kiel Campbell
Kevin O'rourke
Lynn Whitfield
Michael Capellupo
Jesse L. Martin
Peter Macneill
Deborah Pollitt
Alice Krige
Cara Buono
John O'callaghan
Richard Fitzpatrick
T J Collings
Michael Mitchell
Jayne Eastwood
Anne Bancroft
Philip Akin
Gloria Reuben
Nancy Mcalear
Olivia Kassardjian
Crew
Pat Bietz
Shane Birdsill
Charles Bornstein
Gary Bower
Kelly Brennan
Bruce Carwardine
Ane Christenson
Shelley Cook
Janet Gayford
Tina Gerussi
Monika Glanert
Tim Hilts
Eric Hughes
Henry Jesiak
Robert Johnson
J. Stanley Johnston
Ronni Kern
Ronni Kern
Alar Kivilo
Inge Klaudi
Frank Konigsberg
Patricia Lambkin
Asim Matin
Bob Mcrae
Monty Montgomery
Gary Mrowca
Elmo Ponsdomenech
Andrew Poulos
Sheila Pruden
Douglas Reid
Randi Richmond
Michael Rintoul
John Roy
Christine Sacani
D Jonathan Savan
Tim Singh
Gordon Smith
David Till
Neil Trafford
Noel Verhoog
Marcus Wade
Marian Wihak
Deborah Williams
Debbie Wiseman
Georgina Yarhi
David Yarnell
Gary M. Zuckerbrod
Film Details
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Miscellaneous Notes
Aired in United States February 14, 1999
Began shooting October 26, 1998.
Completed shooting November 20, 1998.
