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Learning
Difficulties Minor 
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TITLE |
Room
Upstairs, The (1987) (TV Film) |
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DISABILITY |
Learning
Difficulty Special Needs |
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NOTES |
A young
woman lets rooms in the family house which is close |
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to Harvard
University. She teaches Special Needs children |
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(and smokes
in front of them) Naturally she is an amazing |
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teacher
though she has never had any formal training. You |
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have to keep
in mind that this is 1987 when teaching was |
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perhaps
thought as easy as riding a bike. She actually hits a |
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student and
gets away with it. |
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She does
manage to teach a 15 year old girl and her |
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troublesome
boyfriend to read. |
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A lonely
person she finds romance with one her boarders, a |
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cellist, but
her modest happiness is upset by her brother |
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wanting to
sell the house. |
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At times the
film appears to consist of people taking things out of the
fridge and putting them back again. But it's a pleasant film held
together by Stockard Channing. |
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There are a
few scenes of her teaching in Special Needs. |
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Notes
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