A Child's Cry for Help

A Child's Cry for Help

Infobox Film
name = A Child's Cry for Help


caption =
director = Sandor Stern
producer = Ronald J. Kahn
David C. Thomas
writer = Jan Jaffe Kahn (story/teleplay)
Sandor Stern (teleplay)
starring = Pam Dawber
Veronica Hamel
Daniel Hugh Kelly
Lisa Jakub
Cynthia Martells
Daniel Benzali
music = Joseph LoDuca
cinematography = Frank Beascoechea
Robert Seaman
editing = Caroline Biggerstaff
distributor = NBC
released = November 14 1994
runtime = 110 min.
country =
awards =
language = English
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
amg_id = 1:149585
imdb_id = 0109413

"A Child's Cry for Help" is a 1994 television movie starring Pam Dawber.

Plot

Dr. Paula Spencer has just lost her husband and is about to begin her new job at another hospital. While she is there, a seemingly loving mother, Monica Shaw, brings her son, Eric, in for treatment for his illness. But the doctor suspects that there is something wrong, and theorizes that the mother is deliberately and abusively making her son sick all the time so that she could have him admitted to the hospital for all of the attention that it gives her. When the doctor decides to ban the mother from being around her ill son and get child services to help him, the mother gets back by trying to get her and the hospital sued. Some of the other employees at the hospital board disagree with her diagnosis of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy by thinking she is only over-reacting. Even when the mother is kept away from the boy, he is getting worse and no better.

External links

*imdb title|id=0109413|title=A Child's Cry for Help


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