Genre: | Drama Romance |
Director: | Tina Rathborne |
Starring: | Frances Conroy Jeffrey DeMunn |
Music: | Jed Feuer |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Producer: | Tina Rathborne Sue Felt Tony Mark |
Editor: | Cindy Kaplan |
Cinematography: | Misha Suslov |
Runtime: | 56 minutes |
Company: | Cypress Films Mark/Jett Productions |
Network: | PBS |
The Joy that Kills is a 1985 American made-for-television film adaptation of Kate Chopin's 1894 short story "The Story of an Hour." It was directed by Tina Rathborne and co-written by Rathborne and Nancy Dyer.[1] It was broadcast on the PBS television program American Playhouse on January 28, 1985.[2] The production was filmed at the Gallier House Museum in New Orleans.