Product Details

• Actors: Susan Clark, Peter MacNeill, Catherine Fitch, Michael Riley
• Directors: Don McBrearty
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English, French
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Sullivan Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: November 20, 2002
• Run Time: 94 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00008DZ8L
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #38,647 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

From the producer of "Anne of Green Gables":

The shocking true story of Lila and William Young, owners of the Ideal Maternity Home for unwed mothers in the 1930s and '40s. The public becomes outraged when they discover the Youngs have been secretly burying dead babies and selling healthy youngsters to childless couples.

Canada’s highest-rated television movie ever. Winner of the 1996 Gemini for Best Dramatic Movie.

Special Features include: - Behind-the-Scenes Feature with Cast Interviews

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars unbelieveable, January 28, 2006

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This is a great movie that is true. A woman was stealing babies & then selling them. She was not a doctor or a nurse but she delivered them and when they died she just put them in a butter box and buried them

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions, October 12, 2004

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Roedy Green (Victoria, BC, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Butterbox Babies (DVD)

The Butterbox Babies is a deep film. The characters are clearly so well meaning as they start their home for unwed mothers, but slowly over the film they are corrupted by money and expedience.

You as the viewer, tend to stay sympathetic, until bit by bit you realise how corrupt they have become. You feel unclean for having sympathised with them so long. It is a heartbreaker of a movie.

It shows that the choice is not between abortion and no abortion, but between abortion and illegal abortion.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Butter Box Babies, October 28, 2011

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D. Hearn (Halifax, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Butterbox Babies (DVD)

Excellent movie, well done Sullivan movies.This is a very touching but true story. Have a box of kleenex near by.It's an amazing movie.