Miniseries based on the true story of Clyde Barrow, a charismatic convicted armed robber who sweeps Bonnie Parker, an impressionable, petite, small-town waitress, off her feet, and the two embark on one one of most infamous bank-robbing sprees in history.
From AandE’s press release, September 2013… In a first for A+E Networks, Lifetime, AandE and History will unite to simulcast the four-hour, two-night major event Bonnie and Clyde, starring Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild) and Holliday Grainger (The Borgias) in the title roles of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, the Depression-era outlaw couple whose criminal exploits have assured them lasting fame for eight decades, on Sunday, December 8th, and Monday, December 9th, at 9pm ET/PT.
The star-studded cast also includes Academy Award(R), Golden Globe(R) and Emmy(R) winner Holly Hunter (The Piano) and Academy Award(R) winner and multiple Golden Globe(R) and Emmy(R) nominee William Hurt (Too Big to Fail). The miniseries reunites Hunter and Hurt, who starred in and earned Oscar(R) nominations for 1987’s Broadcast News. Hunter plays Emma Parker, Bonnie’s mother, and Hurt stars as Frank Hamer, the Texas Ranger pursuing the Barrow gang. Other key cast members include Sarah Hyland (Modern Family) as Blanche Barrow, Clyde’s sister-in-law; Lane Garrison (Prison Break) as Clyde’s brother Buck; Elizabeth Reaser (The Twilight Saga) as P.J. Lane, a writer tracking the gang; Austin Hebert (True Blood) as Ted Hinton, a lawman also on the hunt for the duo; and Dale Dickey (Winter’s Bone) as Cummie Barrow, Clyde’s mother.
production details
USA | A and E – Sony Pictures Television – Storyline Entertainment | 240 minutes | Broadcast 8-9 March 2013
Bruce Beresford as Director
Craig Zadan as Executive Producer
Joe Batteer as Writer
John Rice as Writer
Neil Meron as Executive Producer
cast
Holliday Grainger as Bonnie Parker
Emile Hirsch as Clyde Barrow
Sarah Hyland as Blanche Barrow
Lane Garrison as Buck Barrow
William Hurt as Frank Hamer
Holly Hunter as Emma Parker
Austin Hébert as Ted Hinton
Elizabeth Reaser as P.J. Lane
Dale Dickey as Cummie Barrow
