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Civil wars in and out of D.C. courts This 1992 TV-docudrama recounts the case of Dr. Elizabeth Morgan (played by Bonnie Bedelia), a prominent plastic surgeon in the Washington area whose marriage to fellow physician Eric Foretich (Terence Knox) broke up about a week before the birth of their daughter Hilary, whose custody was awarded to her mother. As the film opens in the mid-1980s, Morgan seeks an injunction to curtail Foretich's visitation rights because, she contends, he is sexually abusive to Hilary. When Morgan's allegations are ruled inconclusive, she defies the court, refusing to turn over her child in a stand that becomes a causa celebre Paul Michel Kenneth Welsh Hilary Caroline Dollar Bill Morgan Rip Torn Antonia Morgan Patricia Neal Rob Morgan Nick Searry Linda Holman Pam Owner Judge Dixon Al Wiggins

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Civil wars in and out of D.C. courts. This 1992 TV-docudrama recounts the case of Dr. Elizabeth Morgan (played by Bonnie Bedella), a prominent plastic surgeon in the Washington area whose marriage to fellow physician Eric Foretich (Terence Knox) broke up about a week before the birth of their daughter Hilary, whose custody was awarded to her mother. As the film opens in the mid-1980s, Morgan seeks an injunction to curtail Foretich's visitation rights because, she contends, he is sexually abusive to Hilary. When Morgan's allegations are ruled inconclusive, she defies the court, refusing to turn over her child in a stand that becomes a cause celebre. Paul Michel Kenneth Welsh Hilary Caroline Dollar Bill Morgan Rip Torn Antonia Morgan Patricia Neal Rob Morgan: Nick Searcy Linda Holman Pam Grier Judge Dixon Al Wiggins

(Fact based about the Mormon doctor who used his own sperm as donor sperm.)

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Civil wars in and out of D.C. courts. This 1992 TV-docudrama recounts the case of Dr. Elizabeth Morgan (played by Bonnie Bedelia), a prominent plastic surgeon in the Washington area whose marriage to fellow physician Eric Foretich (Terence Knox) broke up about a week before the birth of their daughter Hilary, whose custody was awarded to her mother. As the film opens in the mid-1980s, Morgan seeks an injunction to curtail Foretich's visitation rights because, she contends, he is sexually abusive to Hilary. When Morgan's allegations are ruled inconclusive, she defies the court, refusing to turn over her child in a stand that becomes a cause célèbre.