Keyword: child neglect
Three on a Match
6.3
1932
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Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
Three on a Match
58 Hours: The Baby Jessica Story
6.9
2021
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On October 14, 1987, 18-month-old Jessica McClure fell into a well while playing in a relatives backyard in Midland, Texas. A captivated nation watched on live television while rescuers worked around the clock for 58 hours to save her. The tense and dramatic twists in the crisis were a unifying event for Americans as the fears and jubilation of one family where shared by people across the country. Director Mark Bone reveals the even more surprising, frightening, and complicated story of what happened to Baby Jessica during her long wait in that well, and explores the impact of her ordeal on her community and her rescuers, particularly after the cameras left town.
58 Hours: The Baby Jessica Story
Low Tide
6.4
2012
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A 12 year old boy and his single mother live parallel lives. The boy spends his days alone while his mother works and goes out with her friends. The boys solitude is both a source of freedom and a cause for grief. His explorations slowly bring to light the dark contrast between the rules of society and the laws of nature. And before long, the delicate balance of his inner world becomes shattered by unforeseen events.
Low Tide
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
7.4
1983
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This is a made for tv adaptation of Barbara Robinsons novel The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. Loretta Swit of M*A*S*H stars as Grace Bradley who inherits the job of running her churchs Christmas pageant when the woman who usually does it breaks her leg tripping over the extremely long wire she has on her telephone.Not only does Grace inherit this disaster it gets worse when the Herdman kids - all six of them. The Herdmans are notorious for abusing each other and stealing from and abusing other kids as well. They smoke, steal, lie, bully and generally create havoc in their town.Their father disappeared years earlier and mother works two shifts at the shoe factory to support herself and the kids while the kids run wild.But this WILL be the best Christmas pageant ever when the Herdman kids learn the Christmas story and about the true meaning of Christmas.
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Cinderella Liberty
7.1
1973
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A lonely Navy sailor falls in love with a hooker and becomes a surrogate father figure for her son during an extended liberty due to his service records being lost.
Cinderella Liberty
Mockingbird Don't Sing
6.5
2001
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Based on the actual events of one of the most horrific cases of child abuse ever to be documented, this haunting drama tells the tale of a young girl that was locked in a room for over 12 years.
Mockingbird Don't Sing
My Way Home
7.5
1978
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Jamie leaves the childrens home to live with his paternal grandmother. After working in a mine and in a tailors shop, he is conscripted into the RAF, and goes to Egypt, where he is befriended by Robert, whose undemanding companionship releases Jamie from self-pity.
My Way Home
My Childhood
7.4
1972
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The second part (My ain folk) of Bill Douglas influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he paid for it with the money he made from returning empty jam jars - and this escape is reflected most closely at this time of his life as an eight-year-old living on the breadline with his half-brother and sick grandmother in a poor mining village.
My Childhood
My Ain Folk
7.5
1973
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Jamie and Tommy are separated by the death of their grandmother; Jamie with another relative and Tommy to a welfare home. Now Jamie is all alone and his life is not at all happy taken over by silence, rejection and violence.
My Ain Folk
The Playroom
5.3
2012
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Four children in their attic hideaway make up a fantastic story, while downstairs their parents weave a drunken intrigue of their own.
The Playroom