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Spoonface Steinberg: Directed by Betsan Morris Evans. With Linda Bassett, Ella Jones, Helen McCrory, Becky Simpson. An autistic girl comes to terms with the fact she's dying of Cancer.
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- Drama
- Betsan Morris Evans
- 1998-02
1998 Directed by Betsan Morris Evans. Television film version of Lee Hall’s award-winning radio play. Spoonface is seven years old, Jewish, autistic - and terminally ill with cancer.
- Betsan Morris Evans
- BBC Film, BBC
this is the first time i've ever heard this subject matter handled in such a unique way. its a fresh perspective on an old story and told from the child's point of view. it's freshness comes from the way Spoonface is just a ordinary little girl with problems but you need to hear or watch to find out about those problems. does make you think!
Lucy Hollis gives Spoonface a disarming, open-eyed innocence and her sudden actions and distractions—kicking her doll off a stool, for instance, scattering a plastic alphabet—match well the pattern of the autism spectrum.
Mar 30, 1998 · Spoonface is seven years old, Jewish, autistic - and terminally ill with cancer. As she tries to come to terms with the meaning of life and death, she draws inspiration from the prisoners in the Nazi concentration camps who died with dignity and their spirit unbowed.
Directed by Betsan Morris Evans. 199850m. Drama, TV Movie. 7.7. Add to Watchlist. Spoonface was different, even before the cancer. Now after her parents have split up and her mother has a drink problem, her hospital consultant introduces her to opera.
Mar 30, 1998 · Spoonface is seven years old, Jewish, autistic - and terminally ill with cancer. As she tries to come to terms with the meaning of life and death, she draws inspiration from the prisoners in the Nazi concentration camps who died with dignity and their spirit unbowed.
