CBS (Sun., Oct. 16, 9 p.m. ET)
C
A divorced mother (Melissa Gilbert) reluctantly agrees to place her autistic son in a specialized facility. There his therapist and teacher (Patty Duke) begins to make breakthroughs with the boy (Bradley Pierce) that result in a disturbing revelation and a controversial trial.
The spooky aspect of this mawkish, melodramatic, fact-based movie is watching Gilbert and Duke onscreen together. Their demonstrative acting technique is so similar, it's like seeing the same actress across a generation gap.
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