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The Children Nobody Wanted is a film of genre Drama released in USA on 5 december 1981 with Fredric Lehne
The Children Nobody Wanted (1981)
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Add to a movie listThe Children Nobody Wanted is a 1981 American made-for-television film based on the true story of child advocate Tom Butterfield (1940–1982), the youngest bachelor to become a legal foster parent in the state of Missouri, and his creation of the Butterfield Ranch.
Synopsis
Working in a state mental hospital, nineteen-year-old Tom Butterfield (Fredric Lehne) befriends an abandoned eight-year-old boy for whom authorities cannot find a foster family. Compelled by the child’s plight, Butterfield and supportive girlfriend Jennifer Williams (Michelle Pfeiffer) transform a dilapidated country club in Marshall, Missouri, into the Butterfield Ranch for homeless boys.Actors
Fredric Lehne
(Tom Butterfield)
Michelle Pfeiffer
(Jennifer Williams)
Noble Willingham
(McNaulty)
Matt Clark
(Bill Westbrook)
Anne Haney
(Mrs. Lightheart)
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