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{{Short description|1993 American drama TV film}}
{{Infobox television
| image                = MiracleChild1993Film.jpg
| image_size           =
| image_alt            =
| caption              = Title card
| genre                = [[Drama]]
| creator              =
| based_on             = ''Miracle at Clement's Pond'' by Patricia Pendergraft
| writer               = [[Gerald Di Pego]]
| screenplay           =
| story                =
| director             = [[Michael Pressman]]
| starring             = [[Crystal Bernard]]<br />[[Cloris Leachman]]<br />[[John Terry (actor)|John Terry]]<br />[[Graham Sack]]<br />[[Grace Zabriskie]]<br />[[George D. Wallace]]<br />[[Lexi Randall]]<br />[[Gary Grubbs]]<br />[[Barnard Hughes]]<br />Bekka Allen<br />Rick Galloway<br />Thomas C. Chapman<br />John Archie<br />Brett Cipes
| narrated             =
| theme_music_composer = [[Craig Safan]]
| country              = [[United States]]
| language             = English
| num_episodes         =
| executive_producer   = Steve White
| producer             = Barry Bernardi
| location             =
| editor               = Millie Moore
| cinematography       = [[Mark Irwin]]
| runtime              = 100 minutes
| company              = Steve White Productions<br />[[Walt Disney Television]]
| budget               =
| network              = [[NBC]]
| released             = {{Start date|1993|04|06}}
}}
'''''Miracle Child''''' is a 1993 American [[television film|made-for-television]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] based on the novel ''Miracle at Clement's Pond'' by Patricia Pendergraft. It was filmed in Archer, [[Florida]]<ref>{{Cite book|title=Variety and Daily Variety Television Reviews 1993-1994|page=12|publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]]|year=1996|isbn=0-8240-3797-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PS1g1rnX7rsC&pg=PP1}}</ref> and featured historic homes and churches in and around Archer.  It was produced by Steve White Productions.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Enser's Filmed Books and Plays: A List of Books and Plays From Which Films Have Been Made, 1928-2001|author=Ellen Baskin|author2=A. G. S. Enser|publisher=[[Ashgate Publishing]]|year=2003|page=[https://archive.org/details/ensersfilmedbook0000bask/page/275 275]|isbn=0-7546-0878-6|url=https://archive.org/details/ensersfilmedbook0000bask|url-access=registration}}</ref> It is part of the [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney]] Family Classics line.<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Wanda Years|author=John Leonard|author-link=John Leonard (critic)|date=1993-04-12|journal=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]|page=61|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JykAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PP1}}</ref>
==Plot==
A despairing young widow ([[Crystal Bernard]]) who abandons her baby at pond-side among bulrushes and a traveling man ([[John Terry (actor)|John Terry]]) who's fighting to reclaim his own son ([[Graham Sack]]) are drawn together. A baby plops out of a rainy, stormy sky into the arms of the town's beloved, vaguely addled spinster ([[Grace Zabriskie]]). Miracles suddenly reverse the fortunes of the town as drought and unemployment disappear, only to be replaced by [[boosterism]] and greed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mytvlog.blogspot.de/2012/05/miracle-child-1993-tvm.html|title = RARE AND HARD TO FIND TITLES - TV and Feature Film: Miracle Child (1993) TV Movie|date = 8 May 2012}}</ref>
==Cast==
* [[Crystal Bernard]] as Lisa Porter
* [[Cloris Leachman]] as Doc Betty
* [[John Terry (actor)|John Terry]] as Buck Sanders
* [[Graham Sack]] as Lyle Sanders
* [[Grace Zabriskie]] as Adeleine Newberry
* [[George D. Wallace]] as Grandpa
* [[Lexi Randall]] as Taffy Marshall
* [[Gary Grubbs]] as John Marshall
* [[Barnard Hughes]] as Judge
* [[Bekka Allen]] as Willa Mrshall
* [[Rick Galloway]] as English
* [[Ryk O. aka Dick Ochampaugh]] as Cueball
* [[Thomas C. Chapman]] as Old Jack
* [[John Archie]] as Sherriff Peak (sic)
* [[Brett Cipes]] as The Whittler
* [[Rocky Essex]] as Painter
==External links==
* {{IMDb title|id=0107577|title=Miracle Child}}
==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Michael Pressman}}
[[Category:1993 television films]]
[[Category:1993 films]]
[[Category:1993 drama films]]
[[Category:Disney television films]]
[[Category:Films based on American novels]]
[[Category:NBC original films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Michael Pressman]]
[[Category:Films produced by Christopher DeFaria]]
[[Category:Films scored by Craig Safan]]
[[Category:American drama television films]]
[[Category:1990s American films]]
[[Category:1990s English-language films]]
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