Lifetime has given the green light to The Dive From Clausen's Pier, an original movie based on the best-selling novel by O. Henry Award winner Ann Packer. John Wierick (NBC's The Matthew Shepard Story) adapted the book, and veteran director Harry Winer is on board to direct. Dive centers on Carrie, whose fiance suffers severe head injures when he dives into shallow water during a Memorial Day picnic. Facing the fear of marrying a quadriplegic and pressure from her family and friends' expectations to do it, Carrie flees her hometown and starts a new life in New York. Casting is under way for the film, which hails from Con Artists Prods. -- the TV arm of Mel Gibson's Icon Prods. -- and Fox TV Studios. Brenda Friend (CBS' Joan of Arc) is exec producing with Icon's Bruce Davey and Nancy Cotton. Fox TV Studios' David Madden and Lisa Demberg will supervise for the production company.
- 3/20/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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