A Brand New Life | |
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Genre | Drama |
Written by | Peggy Chantler Dick |
Screenplay by | Jerome Kass [1] and Peggy Chantler Dick |
Directed by | Sam O'Steen |
Starring |
Martin Balsam Cloris Leachman Marge Redmond Gene Nelson Mildred Dunnock Wilfred Hyde-White |
Music by | Billy Goldenberg |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Producer | Robert W. Christiansen Rick Rosenberg |
Cinematography | David M. Walsh |
Editor | William H. Ziegler |
Running time | 74 minutes |
Production company | Tomorrow Entertainment |
Original release | |
Network | ABC |
Release | February 20, 1973 |
A Brand New Life is a 1973 American made-for-television drama film directed by Sam O'Steen. It stars Cloris Leachman and Martin Balsam. [2] Leachman won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for her performance. [3] [4]
A middle-aged couple faces the impending birth of their first child.
The movie debuted on ABC on February 20, 1973 as the " ABC Tuesday Movie of the Week". It was the ninth-most viewed primetime offering of the week in the United States, with a 23.6 rating. [5] It received positive reviews, with Howard Thompson of The New York Times stating, "most made-for-TV movies emerge like assembly-line lard, but "A Brand New Life" is a joy," and calling it "literate, moving, amusing and genuinely sophisticated in its quiet, observant wisdom." [6]