Choices of the Heart

Choices of the Heart

100 mins | Drama, TV Movie | Dec. 5, 1983

Jeannie Donovan, a party-girl searching for that something missing in her life, finds it in El Salvador, hooking up with three nuns and a heartful of ache, love, and horror in the midst of a civil war. This is a true story of the four American churchwomen murdered in the Central American countryside, and the indifference of the American government to their sad and desperate story.

Choices of the Heart

100 mins | Drama, TV Movie | Dec. 5, 1983

Choices of the Heart
Jeannie Donovan, a party-girl searching for that something missing in her life, finds it in El Salvador, hooking up with three nuns and a heartful of ache, love, and horror in the midst of a civil war. This is a true story of the four American churchwomen murdered in the Central American countryside, and the indifference of the American government to their sad and desperate story.
IMDb rating 6.4
Producers half-pint productions, katz-gaffin productions
Original title Choices of the Heart
Directors Joseph Sargent
Writers John Pielmeier

Cast

Melissa Gilbert

as Jean Donovan

Peter Horton

as Doug

Helen Hunt

as Cathy

Mary McCusker

as Sister Maura Clarke

Mari Gorman

as Sister Ita Ford

Pamela Bellwood

as Sister Dorothy Kazel

Patrick Cassidy

as Patrick

René Enríquez

as Archbishop Romero

Mike Farrell

as Ambassador Robert E. White

Martin Sheen

as Father Philan

Demián Bichir

as Armando

Enrique Lucero

as Colonel Rojas

Delores Devine

as Gwen

George Belanger

as Father Rich