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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
Spoonface Steinberg Ep. 1/1 - Lee Hall’s monologue featuring a seven year-old opera-loving autistic girl dying of cancer elicited an extraordinary response from the Radio 4 audience when it was...
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.
Spoonface Steinberg is the touching story of a life, death and dying, and religious faith as told by a young autistic girl who has terminal cancer. This all sounds rather grim, and it is, but the story and the sensitive telling of it by Boo Dyer, who plays the young girl, is uplifting and an affirmation of life.
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.
- Betsan Morris Evans
- BBC Film, BBC
Spoonface Steinberg (TV Movie 1998) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
He is perhaps most associated with the film Billy Elliot (2000), for which he wrote the screenplay, and with Spoonface Steinberg (1997), written for radio and later adapted for the stage. Both works combine a popular appeal with a textual urge to express the extraordinariness of ‘ordinary’ lives.
