Amy (film)
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Amy is a 1981 live-action Disney film released by Buena Vista Distribution Company, written by Noreen Stone and directed by Vincent McEveety
Vincent McEveety
Vincent Michael McEveety is an American director and producer.- Career :TelevisionVince McEveety has directed numerous Emmy Award winning television series, including The Untouchables, Gunsmoke, six Star Trek , Magnum, P.I., How the...

, and starring Jenny Agutter
Jenny Agutter
Jennifer Ann "Jenny" Agutter is an English film and television actress. She began her career as a child actress in the mid 1960s, starring in the BBC television series The Railway Children and the film adaptation of the same book, before moving on to adult roles and relocating to Hollywood.She...

.

Plot

Amy Medford (Jenny Agutter
Jenny Agutter
Jennifer Ann "Jenny" Agutter is an English film and television actress. She began her career as a child actress in the mid 1960s, starring in the BBC television series The Railway Children and the film adaptation of the same book, before moving on to adult roles and relocating to Hollywood.She...

) is a dutiful housewife of the early 1900s. But when her husband Elliot (Chris Robinson
Chris Robinson (actor)
Chris Robinson is an actor who played Rick Webber #2 on General Hospital...

) objects to a wife with a career, Amy leaves her husband and comfortable lifestyle. She goes on to devote her life to teaching sight-and-hearing-impaired students at a tradition-bound special school. Amy's students take on a team of "normal" kids at a football game.

Educational film

In 1982, Walt Disney educational experted a sequence out of the film for educational use, entitled Amy-on-the-Lips.

Cast

  • Jenny Agutter
    Jenny Agutter
    Jennifer Ann "Jenny" Agutter is an English film and television actress. She began her career as a child actress in the mid 1960s, starring in the BBC television series The Railway Children and the film adaptation of the same book, before moving on to adult roles and relocating to Hollywood.She...

     as Amy Medford
  • Barry Newman
    Barry Newman
    Barry Foster Newman is an American film, television, and stage actor, famous for his interpretation of Kowalski in the movie Vanishing Point. He has been nominated for a Golden Globe and Emmy awards.- Life and career :...

     as Dr. Ben Corcoran
  • Kathleen Nolan
    Kathleen Nolan
    Kathleen Nolan is an American actress. She is sometimes confused with actress Jeanette Nolan. From 1957 to 1962, she played the role of Kate McCoy, a housewife in her late twenties, in the Walter Brennan series The Real McCoys....

     as Helen Gibbs
  • Chris Robinson
    Chris Robinson (actor)
    Chris Robinson is an actor who played Rick Webber #2 on General Hospital...

     as Elliot Medford
  • Lou Fant as Lyle Ferguson
  • Margaret O'Brien
    Margaret O'Brien
    Margaret O'Brien is an American film and stage actress. Although her film career as a leading character was brief, she was one of the most popular child actors in cinema history...

     as Hazel Johnson
  • Nanette Fabray
    Nanette Fabray
    Nanette Fabray is an American actress, comedienne, singer, dancer, and activist. She began her career performing in vaudeville as a child and then became a musical theatre actress during the 1940s and 1950s, winning a Tony Award in 1949 for her performance in Love Life...

     as Malvina
  • Otto Rechenberg as Henry Watkins
  • David Hollander
    David Hollander
    David Hollander is an American TV writer and producer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is most notably known as the creator, screenwriter, and an executive producer of The Guardian, a Pittsburgh-based legal drama which aired on CBS...

     as Just George
  • Cory 'Bumper' Yothers as Wisley Moods
  • Alban Branton as Eugene
  • Ronnie Scribner
    Ronnie Scribner
    Ronnie Scribner is an American actor. A professional child actor and model since the age of 11, Scribner is best known for his iconic role as the child vampire, Ralphie Glick in the 1979 CBS mini-series Salem's Lot...

    as Walter Ray

DVD Release

Disney released a DVD-on-Demand version of this film as part of their "Disney Generations Collection" line of DVD's on June 26, 2011.

External links

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