Battered Wives

Dramatizes the widespread, but largely concealed, social problem of wife beating. Focuses on two very different marriages, one in which the wife of an ambitious young lawyer becomes an easy target for her impatient, repressive husband, and another in which a couple must deal with the problem of alcohol. Edited from the feature Battered, starring Karen Grassle, Mike Farrell, Chip Fields, and LeVar Burton., Dramatizes the widespread, but largely concealed, social problem of wife beating. Focuses on two very different marriages, one in which the wife of an ambitious young lawyer becomes an easy target for her impatient, repressive husband, and another in which a couple must deal with the problem of alcohol. Edited from the feature Battered, starring Karen Grassle, Mike Farrell, Chip Fields, and LeVar Burton.