The Skin of Our Teeth (1983)

10.0/10 • 113 min • Drama

Overview

Production of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winning play "The Skin of Our Teeth," the story of Mr. and Mrs. Antrobus, their children Henry and Gladys, and their maid Sabina. They are simultaneously a typical American family living in a present-day New Jersey suburb and are also Adam, Eve, Lilith, Cain and a daughter who survive the Ice Age (although their pet dinosaurs do not), the Flood (as in the book of Genesis in the Bible) and War (as in WWII).

Cast

Blair Brown

Sada Thompson

Harold Gould

Jeffrey Combs

Rue McClanahan

John Houseman

Network Newscaster

Diana Bellamy

Miss E. Muse / Ivy

Larry Drake

Homer/Conveener

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