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Family Secrets is a film of genre Drama with Melissa Gilbert
Family Secrets (1984)
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Add to a movie listFamily Secrets is a 1984 television movie directed by Jack Hofsiss and starring Maureen Stapleton, Melissa Gilbert and Stefanie Powers (who also co-wrote and co-produced). It is about three generations of women in the same family and their relationships with each other.
Actors
Melissa Gilbert
(Sara Calloway)
Stefanie Powers
(Jessie Calloway)
James Spader
(Lowell Everall)
Maureen Stapleton
(Maggie Lukauer)
Irene Tedrow
(Mrs. Fenwick)
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