Darkness Before Dawn (The True Stories Collection)

Starring:Meredith Baxter, Stephen Lang, Gwynyth Walsh, L. Scott Caldwell, Chelsea Hertford, Bill Applebaum, Michael Bryan French, Lee Tergesen, Natalie West, Robert Desiderio, Richard Grove, Alana Austin, Kirsten Dunst, Tim Farrell, Matthew Linville, Mary Anne McGarry, James Dean (II), Rusty Schwimmer, Lora Staley, George Solomon
Director: John Patterson (III)
Studio: Mpi Home Video
Product Type: DVD

Description

Darkness Before Dawn is a story of love, determination and, ultimately, survival. It is the story of a woman trapped in a private hell - with only the man she loves to save her. Mary Ann Thompson (Meredith Baxter, Family Ties, A Passion For Innocence) is a nurse at a methadone clinic, who's haunted by a troubled past. She escapes from her sad childhood memories under the veil of drug addiction. The deception is so successful that no one suspects her of being a junkie. When Mary Ann falls for one of her patients, Guy Grand (Stephen Lang, Manhunter, Last Exit to Brooklyn), her problems begin to escalate. She inspires him to kick his heroin habit, while hiding her own addiction. The two soon marry and are determined to live a clean life. But, when their baby is born addicted to heroin, Mary Ann's worst nightmare becomes a reality. DVD extras include: About the Film, About the Stars, Interactive Menus, Scene Selections

Customer Reviews:

Darkness Before Dawn (True Stories Collection).......2007-04-14

I cannot rate this movie. I never viewed it and I never purchased it.

SHOULD A WAKE UP CALL !.......2007-01-10

THIS MOVIE SHOULD A WAKE UP CALL TO THE PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY. BUT FOR MANY PEOPLE IN THIS MOVIE ARE A AMOUNT OF PEOPLE THIS LIVE TO TELL THERE TALES.THERE IS A HUGE DRUG PROBLEM IN THIS COUNTRY.

a great movie.......2006-07-04

this movie based on heroin addicts. ive never been into drugs.i think this movie could help people, i have had some childhood problems like maryann had . all in all ita a great true story about real people.

Darkness Before Dawn.......2006-04-02

This is a movie about a nurse who meets a patient at rehab where she works, and decides to go out with him and well things just go down hill from there. He is unstable and can't find a job. Moves in with her and becomes untrustworthy. She's not the "all too clean" nurse that we'd all like to think, that's she's protraying to be-including to her new post rehab boyfriend. Good ol Meredith Baxter she always plays those "crazy" parts so well!!
Good value!

Meredith Baxter's best TV movie.......2005-11-02

I've always loved all of Meredith Baxter's TV movies because she always chose to play such deeply troubled women going through extremely difficult situations- the women she portrayed in these TV movies were the polar opposite of her best known character- Elyse from "Family Ties".

This movie, inwhich she plays a drug addicted nurse who steals from the hospital she works at, is probably the best of all of her TV movies. Just when you think Maryanne has recovered, she relapses. It's incredibly well-done, agonizing, and compelling. Meredith was ROBBED of an Emmy for this one.

The picture quality of this DVD is not only flawless, it's ten times sharper than the version you'll see often shown on Lifetime. Now all they have to do is release "The Kissing Place" (inwhich Meredith plays a kidnapper) and "Kate's Secret" (inwhich she's a bulimic) onto DVD, and all of Meredith's best work will be available on DVD.

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