Broken Glass Movie Review 1996

Set in Brooklyn in 1938 and adapted from a play by Arthur Miller. Jewish housewife, Sylvia Gellberg (Leicester), has been stricken by a mysterious paralysis and Dr. Harry Hyman (Patinkin) is called in to treat her. Her illness is apparently psychosomatic and Sylvia gradually reveals her anxiety about her unhappy marriage and her obsessive fears with newspaper reports concerning Jewish persecution in Germany. Hyman and his wife Margaret (McGovern) soon find themselves drawn in deeper than could have imagined. Made for TV.

Distribution

PBS Home Video, Catalog Fulfillment Center, PO Box 751089, Charlotte, NC 28275-1089, Phone: (800)531-4727, Toll-free: 800-645-4PBS, Email: info@pbs.org, URL: http://www.pbs.org

Available on VHS
Running time 120 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Adapted from a Play, Judaism, Marriage, Doctors & Nurses, Period Piece: 1930s, Nazis & Other Paramilitary Slugs, Plays to Film: Arthur Miller

Screenplay

David Thacker, David Holman

Cast

Mandy Patinkin, Margot Leicester, Henry Goodman, Elizabeth McGovern

Director

David Thacker

Producer

Fiona Finlay, Rebecca Eaton, WGBH Boston