Family Reunion (film) explained

Genre:Drama
Director:Fielder Cook
Starring:Bette Davis
J. Ashley Hyman
David Huddleston
John Shea
Theme Music Composer:Wladimir Selinsky
Country:United States
Language:English
Producer:Lucy Jarvis
Location:Locust Valley Elementary School, Muttontown, New York, USA
New York City
Washington, D.C.
Editor:Eric Albertson
Cinematography:Jack Priestley
Runtime:200 minutes
Company:Columbia Pictures Television
Creative Projects
Network:NBC

Family Reunion is a 1981 American made-for-television drama film directed by Fielder Cook. The teleplay by Allan Sloane was based on the Ladies Home Journal article How America Lives by Joe Sparton. It was produced by Columbia Pictures Television for NBC, which aired it in two parts on October 11 and 12, 1981.

Plot

Family Reunion follows Elizabeth Winfield, a New England teacher recently retired after a fifty-year career. She uses an unlimited bus ticket received as a gift to visit the distant members of her long-estranged family. During her absence, her small hometown, which bears her family's name, falls prey to dishonest relatives colluding with corrupt shopping mall developers. She returns in an effort to halt construction on the project and, armed with the moral integrity she has instilled in her students for the past five decades, she manages to resolve the situation in time for the annual Founder's Day festivities.

Cast