Midwives

It's a cold and stormy night, and in a house in rural Vermont, midwife Sibyl Danforth is, together with the father and an assistant, in the middle of a homebirth. As time passes, the woman in labor meets with difficulties and Sibyl concludes that it would be preferable for the woman to deliver her baby in the hospital. Though a dead telephone line and bad weather prevents Sibyl from going anywhere. Black ice and a persisten snowstorm makes transportation an impossibility. Early in the morning, the woman dies from what they believe to be a stroke and in all the chaos, Sibyl promptly decides to do a C-section to save the baby. The baby survives, but the mother is dead and tragedy is obvious. Yet, it's only going to get worse for Sibyl as her assistant is certain that the woman was still alive when Sibyl performed the C-section. Sibyl is charged with manslaughter, brought before the court and her life is and will forever be changed.

6.2

92 min

Cast

Sissy Spacek

as Sibyl Danforth

Peter Coyote

as Stephen Hastings

Terry Kinney

as Rand Danforth

Alison Pill

as Constance 'Connie' Danforth

Peter Dvorsky

Paul Hecht

Cliff Saunders

as Asa Bedford

Elva Mai Hoover

as OB Gym Doctor

Piper Laurie

as Cheryl Visco

Lindsay Collins

as Wanda Purington

Murray Oliver

as Caleb Purington

Bruce McFee

as Tuttle

Danielle Bouffard

as Hannah Purington

Ezra Perlman

as Foogie

Jeremy Wright

as Marc

Susannah Hoffmann

as Charlotte Bedford

Director

Glenn Jordan