A Child's Cry for Help

(1994)

★ 7.5 IMDb · 7 votes

Genres: Drama, телевизионный фильм

Year: 1994

Runtime: 110 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Sandor Stern

Cast: Veronica Hamel, Pam Dawber, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Лиза Якуб, Cynthia Martells, Daniel Benzali, James Pickens Jr., Jeff Williams, Zachary Charles, Тоби Магуайр

Plot

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?