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6.1/10   124 votes
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Writer (WGA):
Bruce Harmon (written by)
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Release Date:
11 August 1997 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
Perhaps the best docudrama I've seen more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Bonnie Bedelia ... Dorothy Hajdys

Hedy Burress ... Kathy
Paul Popowich ... Allen
Fiona Reid ... Doris

Allan Royal

Shawn Ashmore ... Billy

Mimi Kuzyk ... Peggy Evans

Peter Keleghan

Barry Flatman
Paul Haddad
Phillip Jarrett
Sada Thompson ... Gertie

Scott Gibson ... Terry Helvey
Cameron Mathison ... Rich Eastman
Michael Gabriel ... Charles Vins
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Additional Details

Runtime:
Brazil:90 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Company:
ABC Pictures more

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2 out of 4 people found the following comment useful:-
Perhaps the best docudrama I've seen, 7 October 2000
10/10
Author: Aizyk from Big D

Any Mother's Son is a frank, honest film that nevertheless treats its characters and its subject with tenderness and compassion while remaining evenhanded, realistic, and unmarred by lugubriousness. Bonnie Bedelia gives a moving performance, with numerous scenes of genuine emotional intensity, and I was repeatedly touched by her grief and anger, and compelled by her eventual crusade for justice. It was quite satisfying to watch her character develop, as she came to grips with the realization of her murdered closeted son's homosexuality, and how her love for him helped her and her family to grow and to cope, and become stronger. It also treats the killers with fairness, portraying them not as monsters but as human beings, and addresses the brutally abusive childhood of the defendant.

This movie is appropriate for people of all ages, and is refreshingly free of the exploitative, sensationalistic tone which dominates almost every other based-on-true-events made-for-TV movie out there (the only other exception I can personally think of offhand being The Price of Love). I'd recommend it to anyone, and wish it could somehow be exposed to a wider audience.

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