Against Her Will: The Carrie Buck Story is a 1994 Lifetime TV network television movie which aired on October 5, 1994.
Plot[]
A law student (Melissa Gilbert) fights a 1927 Supreme Court decision to save an intellectually disabled mother (Marlee Matlin) from sterilization after the woman's newborn daughter is removed from her custody.
Cast[]
- Marlee Matlin as Carrie Buck
- Melissa Gilbert as Melissa Prentice
- Peter Frechette as Adam White
- Pat Hingle as Arthur Kent
- Joe Inscoe as Ian Strand
- John Bennesa as Governor Trinkle
- Elaine Nalee as Alice Evans
- Terry Loughlin as Joseph Evans
- Sharyn Greene as Elizabeth Lake
- Moses Gibson as Feenie
- Trent McDevitt as Gregory Lake