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Released
1981 · FILM

The Children Nobody Wanted

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Written by
Runtime
100 min
DramaTV Movie

Synopsis

Tom Butterfield's true story follows his efforts to provide family life for homeless children, making him not only the first bachelor caretaker but also the youngest single adult to become a legal foster parent in the state of Missouri.

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Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Harry KeramidasShot by Reynaldo VillalobosScored by Barry De Vorzon

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