Haywire was adapted for television by Ivan Davis and Frank Pierson from the best-selling autobiography of Brooke Hayward. Played herein by Deborah Raffin, Brooke is the daughter of legendary Broadway producer Leland Hayward (Jason Robards) and the brilliant stage and film actress Margaret Sullavan (Lee Remick). The much-married Leland is overindulgent but aloof and casually cruel; the lovely Margaret is an emotionally unstable perfectionist. The residue of this dysfunctional family relationship includes the suicides of Ms. Sullivan and Brooke's sister Bridget (Dianne Hull), and the confinement to a mental institution of Brooke's brother Bill (Hart Bochner). How Brooke herself survives this "haywire" situation provides the meat of this 2-hour film. Brooke's brother William Hayward was the producer of Haywire, which originally aired May 14, 1980.
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4
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- genres
- sub-genres
- category
- Feature
- directed by
- countries
- USA
- released
- 1980
- run time
- 156 min.
- produced by
- Pando Productions, Warner Brothers Television
by Hal Erickson
synopsis
producer [showbiz]
perfection
parent
relationship
sister
suicide
stars [celebrities]
mental-institution
love
dysfunctional
autobiography
daughter
family
lifestyle
glamour
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