An experienced midwife (Sissy Spacek) faces the accusatory eye of her friends and neighbors when she is suspected of killing one of her patients in 1980s rural Vermont. Stephen Hastings: Peter Coyote. Cheryl Visco: Piper Laurie. Rand: Terry Kinney. Connie: Alison Pill. Tanner: Peter Dvorsky. B.P. Hewitt: Paul Hecht. Charlotte Bedford: Susannah Hoffman. Asa Bedford: Cliff Saunders. Glenn Jordan directed the film, based on the book by Chris Bohjalian.