An Enemy of the People

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Starring Emmy Award Nominees: John Glover, George Grizzard

Prosperity seems to be looming on the horizon for a turn-of-the century seacoast town in Maine. A health spa created from the local springs prompts hopes of an economic bonanza. There is hardly cause for concern that visitors to the community have been getting sick. However, Dr. Stockmann suspects that it may be a bacteria problem in the water as the spa is too close to a tannery. Prosperity vs Honesty: a passionate choice.

Perhaps the greatest playwright of the 19th century, Henrik Ibsen wrote of his outrage at a society that refuses to recognize the truth. This adaptation for PBS by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Arthur Miller presents the powerful study of an honest man being persecuted because of his insistence on telling that truth.