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TITLE Echoes of a Summer (1976)

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DISABILITY General Heart disease

COUNTRY USA

LENGTH 99

GENRE Drama

DIRECTOR Don Taylor

CAST Richard Harris

Lois Nettleton

Jodie Foster

Geraldine Fitzgerald

William Windom

Brad Savage

NOTES Foster plays an 11 year old girl who is dying of heart disease.

There's lots of father/daughter bonding while her mother

seeks doctor after doctor to find a cure. She clocks up 18 in

all. Foster bears up to her fate while the adults around her

crumble.

The general quality of acting is very good but the scenes

between Foster and her 9 year old (boy) friend are superb

though the dialogue is rather precocious.

Heartily recommended.

 


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