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A Child's Cry for Help

A Child's Cry for Help

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 13, 1994

Runtime

1h 50m

Genres

Drama, TV Movie

User Score

76%

Original Title

A Child's Cry for Help

Production Companies

Hallmark Entertainment, NBC

Director

Sandor Stern

Description

A recently widowed doctor moves with her daughter to start at a new hospital. While there a loving mother brings her son in for treatment. The doctor suspects that there is something wrong, and theorizes that the mother is deliberately making her son sick so that she could bring him to the hospital for the attention that it gives her. When the doctor decides to restrict the mother's access to her son and is reporting her to child services, the mother in turn decides to sue the doctor and the hospital. And some of the hospital board don't agree with her diagnosis or think that she's over-reacting. And even while the mother's not allowed access to her son, he is still sick, so is the doctor right or wrong?