Lily Dale

Lily Dale (1996)

The past is only dangerous when you try to forget.

In 1910, 19-year-old Horace Robedaux, still bitter toward his stepfather, goes to Houston to be reunited with his mother, Corella, and his sister, Lily Dale, following a long estrangement. He has not seen either since he was 12 because his wicked stepfather, Pete Davenport (whom his mother married after his father drank himself to death) believes a boy ought to be self-reliant.

Date of release
1996-06-09
TMDB
3.7 / 10 (3)
Runtime
1h 38m
Genres
Drama, TV Movie
Director
Peter Masterson
Collection
The Orphans' Home Cycle

Casting

Interesting facts

Lily Dale is a 1996 American drama television film directed by Peter Masterson and adapted by Horton Foote from his like-named play, which debuted Off-Broadway in 1986. It stars Mary Stuart Masterson, Sam Shepard, Stockard Channing, and Tim Guinee, and aired on Showtime on June 9, 1996.

Production

Filming took place in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, beginning in December 1995 and concluding the following month. According to Foote biographer Wilborn Hampton, Shepard—having himself first achieved fame as a playwright before embarking on his more lucrative onscreen career—had turned down a Showtime project paying four times as much for the opportunity to participate in this production, yet was, at the same time, utterly appalled at the netw…

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