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Learning
Difficulties Major 
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TITLE |
Broken Cord, The (1992) (TV Film) |
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DISABILITY |
Learning
Difficulty |
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NOTES |
Set in
Alaska 1972. |
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Jimmy Smits
plays a professor of anthropology who wants to |
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adopt child.
He isn't married because as he says he hasn't |
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found the
right woman. The film may be set in 1972 when |
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such an
adoption might be possible. The criteria for adoption |
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don't appear
too rigorous. |
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The child is
a 4 year old Indian boy with mental retardation. |
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Adam, the
child, also has a seizure, lesion on brain, beginning of spinal
curvature. His condition results from his mother being an
alcoholic. |
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Adam goes to
school and this results in a fight against the |
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school
system who classify him as learning disabled. |
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Smits comes
over as a bit of a hero. One woman he has an |
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affair with
leaves because he's too committed to boy. After a |
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year he
meets another woman who might just be that 'right' |
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The film
follows Adam from 4 years old through to his teenage age years.
And I didn't find the film had much dramatic impact. It's
clearly of the 'based on a true story' genre and doesn't feel
obliged to make an effort at getting the viewer involved. |
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Notes
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