Mrs. Soffel
A true story.
19841h 52mNo ratings yet
- Drama
- Romance
Overview
Kate Soffel is married to a prison warden in Pittsburgh, and is the mother of their four children. Ed Biddle is a convicted murderer awaiting execution on death row with his brother Jack. When Kate meets Eddie through her Bible readings to the prisoners, she is drawn to him, and they pursue a clandestine relationship. She agrees to help the brothers escape, and begins a treacherous journey with them to freedom in Canada.
Keywords
- prison
- prison escape
- woman director
- based on true story
- fugitive
- pennsylvania
- pittsburgh
- child abandonment
- maximum security prison
- prison warden
- brothers
- posse
- family abandonment
- abandoned by mother
- celebrity criminal
- pittsburgh, pennsylvania
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- December 26, 1984
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Cast
- Diane Keaton,Mel Gibson,Matthew Modine,Edward Herrmann,Trini Alvarado,Jennifer Dundas,Danny Corkill,Harley Cross,Terry O'Quinn,Pippa Pearthreeand 54 more
- Director
- Gillian Armstrong
- Writer
- Ron Nyswaner
- Cinematography
- Russell Boyd
- Music
- Mark Isham
- Budget
- $11,000,000
- Revenue
- $4,385,312
- IMDb
- tt0087751