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Learning
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DISABILITY |
Learning
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I'm fairly
sure this was made for TV but haven't got |
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Watching
this I had just seen Powder (see below) in which |
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Steenburgen
also stars and in which a poor lead performance makes a bad
film worse. |
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Steenburgen
was her usual competent self in that film. Here |
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she has the
lead role of Sara, a grown-up woman with |
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At the
beginning of the film Sara's mother has a stroke and |
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dies and the
rest of the film is about what will happen to Sara. |
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Sara's
sister arrives for the funeral and reading of the will and
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assumes that
she will care for Sara. But the mother's will |
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requests
that Sara will be looked after by her daughter. That |
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is, Sara's
daughter, who is actually grown up and about 18 or |
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19. The
grandmother's worry is that her second daughter |
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would just
put Sara into a home. Which is precisely what she |
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The dilemma
for Sara's daughter, Bell, is that she wants to go to medical
school and in fact she is accepted. |
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A resolution
is found by putting Sara into a group home which |
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she shares
with other people who have learning difficulties but where there
is a high degree of autonomy. |
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Now this
sounds like a pretty good film but too be honest I felt |
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let down by
Steenburgen's performance. She simply isn't |
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convincing
either because she isn't a good enough actor, or |
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she's hit
the wrong note and nobody told her. |
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Notes
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