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6.1/10   163 votes
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Robert L. Joseph (play)
Robert L. Joseph (screenplay)
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Release Date:
April 1976 (USA) more
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A dying daughter's last gift becomes the Echoes of a Summer that will linger in your heart forever! more
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The eleven-year-old Deirdre suffers from an incureable heart trouble. For two years, her parents Eugene and Ruth have consulted heart specialists... more | add synopsis
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Lovely little film more (6 total)

Cast

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Richard Harris ... Eugene Striden
Lois Nettleton ... Ruth Striden

Geraldine Fitzgerald ... Sara
William Windom ... Dr. Hallet

Jodie Foster ... Deirdre Striden
Brad Savage ... Philip
Robert L. Joseph ... Druggist
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Last Castle
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Runtime:
99 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Richard Harris thought the script was faulty and threatened director Don Taylor with a good thrashing. He also locked fellow star William Windom in his dressing room for several hours. more
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The Last Castle more

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6 out of 6 people found the following review useful.
Lovely little film, 27 January 2001
6/10
Author: moonspinner55 from redlands, ca

When Jodie Foster admirers discuss her career, this one always gets left out. It's a simple, sentimental story of an ill young girl and the effects her strength and will has on the people around her. Richard Harris is a bit heavy as her father (and I could have done without his non-singing over the credits: "Deeeeeer-draaaaaaah"), but Foster makes the most of her scenes, particularly with William Windom as a doctor surprised by her maturity and Brad Savage as a local boy who's curious about sex (they hold hands and lie together on the beach in a stunningly delicate moment). Based on the flop Broadway play "The Isle Of Children", which starred a post-"Miracle Worker" Patty Duke, the film gets a little hectic in its final stages as the filmmakers try to wrap up the story with a birthday party sequence I didn't much care for. Still worth-seeing for Foster, luminous at eleven years and holding this picture together. **1/2 from ****

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