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Baby Broker: Born to Be Sold (1981)
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"There was a time when the major networks (ABC, NBC and CBS) all had movie of the week divisions. A movie of the week, some might recall, is a 90 to 120-minute production made explicitly for broadcast on television. They are analogous to today´s direct to DVD features, with a relatively small budget, superficial story and one or two name actors. In the case of 1981´s "Born to be Sold" (DVD title "Baby Broker"), Lynda Carter, Dean Stockwell and Harold Gould star in a story about a social worker who becomes involved in a baby-for-sale business. Based on the novel "The Baby Brokers" and based on inspired by true stories (according to the crawl at the end of the film, anyway), "Baby Broker" tries to enlighten the audience about a social topic which hasn´t been fully covered in the media. In the world of the early 1980s, it may have been seen as a groundbreaking, provocative drama. For a 2008 audience, though, where the bar has been raised almost impossibly high by ba ... "
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