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Bill (1981 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Bill' is a 1981 American made-for-television biographical drama film starring Mickey Rooney and Dennis Quaid based on the life of Bill Sackter. The film was broadcast on CBS on December 22, 1981.
Mickey Rooney won an Emmy Award and Golden Globe for his performance, and the film also received a Golden Globe for Best TV Film.
A sequel, 'Bill: On His Own', was released in 1983.
Plot
Bill is a man with an intellectual disability in his 60s. He ventures out into the world for the first time after spending most of his life at Grandville, a dreary inner city institution in Minneapolis, Minnesota, since age seven (when his mother sent him there). Bill is taken in by a kind family and learns what it means to love for the first time in his life.
Cast
*Mickey Rooney - Bill Sackter
*Dennis Quaid - Barry Morrow
*Largo Woodruff - Beverly Morrow
*Anna Maria Horsford - Marge Keating
*Harry Goz - Dr. Tom Walz
*Kathleen Maguire - Florence Archer
See also
*Film within a film
*Rain Man
References
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