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A Child's Cry for Help

7.5/10
TMDB7 votes
Original: 110 min

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?

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About A Child's Cry for Help

A Child's Cry for Help (1994) is a film in the drama, tv movie genres. Directed by . The cast includes Veronica Hamel, Pam Dawber, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Lisa Jakub.

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Original language
Runtime
110 minutes
Status
Released
Production countries
United States of America
Production companies
Hallmark Entertainment, NBC
Directors
Writers
Jan Jaffe Kahn

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What is A Child's Cry for Help about?

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?

Who stars in A Child's Cry for Help?

Veronica Hamel, Pam Dawber, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Lisa Jakub, Cynthia Martells, Daniel Benzali. See the cast cards above for character names.

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