The birth of a child should be the happiest moment in a couple's life. But when a doctor's wife has twins one of whom has Down syndrome this physician makes the difficult decision to send one of his babies away. An attending nurse discovers his plan and intervenes putting into motion events that will haunt the doc his wife and his son for the next 20 years. This Emmy-nominated movie an all-star cast including Dermot Mulroney (The Wedding Date) Gretchen Mol (3:10 to Yuma) and two-time Oscar nominee Emily Watson (Angela's Ashes). Based on The New York Times best-selling... novel Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards. [show more]
This well meant but occasionally too sweet adaptation of Kim Edward's bestselling novel, stars Emily Watson who gives a Down syndrome baby a home when its father gives it away, preferring to tell his wife that the baby died at birth. Born twins, the two siblings grow up never knowing each other, the boy at home with his parents, who are too caught up in their own rocky relationship to notice him, and the Down syndrome girl grows up not knowing her real mother doesn't know she's still living.
This potentially heartbreaking story is sugar coated a little, but doesn't abandon raw emotion entirely. The pain the father's decision to separate the two twins at birth has far reaching consequences, but apart from being very watchable, the power of the story starts to fall away in favour of sentimentality.
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. In 1964, Dr. David Henry (Dermot Mulroney) separated his daughter from her twin brother to hide the daughter's Down Syndrome from his wife. Entrusting the baby to a nurse (Emily Watson), David cut off all contact to focus on his wife (Gretchen Mol)and his son. Over the next 25 years, his disabled daughter grows into a beautiful adult while David watches the rest of his family fall apart, knowing he can never reveal his darkest secret.
Made-for-TV adaptation of the best-selling novel by Kim Edwards. When Dr David Henry (Dermot Mulroney) and his wife Nora (Gretchen Mol) give birth to twins, Phoebe and Paul, David is dismayed to discover that Phoebe has Down's syndrome. Unbeknownst to his wife, he makes the decision to send Phoebe to an institution, telling Nora that her daughter was stillborn. However, when the attending nurse (Emily Watson) decides to intervene and raise the baby herself, she sets into motion a sequence of events that will haunt the doctor and his wife for years to come.
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