# The Sorrows of Gin

Directed by Jack Hofsiss. Produced by Ann Blumenthal and Peter Weinberg for WNET

Stars Edward Herrman, Sigourney Weaver, Eileen Heckart, and Rachel Roberts

Based on a story by John Cheever, this dramatization centers on an eight-year-old girl's search for a sense of family amid the sophisticated and detached whirl of her parents' suburban lives. Although sometimes comic, her struggle ends in despair

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1979
- Runtime: 28 min
- By: Hofsiss, Jack, Blumenthal, Ann, Weinberg, Peter, Herrmann, Edward, Weaver, Sigourney, 1949-, Heckart, Eileen, 1919-2001, Roberts, Rachel, 1927-1980, WNET…
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/thesorrowsofgin)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/thesorrowsofgin?play=1)