A Child's Cry for Help
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| A Child's Cry for Help | |
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| Directed by | Sandor Stern |
| Produced by | Ronald J. Kahn David C. Thomas |
| Written by | Jan Jaffe Kahn (story/teleplay) Sandor Stern (teleplay) |
| Starring | Pam Dawber Veronica Hamel Daniel Hugh Kelly Lisa Jakub Cynthia Martells Daniel Benzali |
| Music by | Joseph LoDuca |
| Cinematography | Frank Beascoechea Robert Seaman |
| Editing by | Caroline Biggerstaff |
| Distributed by | NBC |
| Release date(s) | November 14, 1994 |
| Running time | 110 min. |
| Country |  |
| Language | English |
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A Child's Cry for Help is a 1994 television movie starring Pam Dawber.
[edit] Plot
Dr. Paula Spencer has just lost her husband and her daughter is about 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.
