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Sep 20, 1981 · Please Don't Hit Me, Mom: Directed by Gwen Arner. With Patty Duke, Nancy McKeon, Lance Guest, Sean Astin. A babysitter realizes that one of the children she looks after is being physically abused by his mother.
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- Drama, Family, Sport
- Gwen Arner
- 1981-09-20
While baby-sitting for eight-year-old Brian Reynolds, teenager Nancy Parks discovers that Brian is a battered child. The story relates Nancy's attempts to help Brian's distraught, divorced mother realize that she is abusing her son.
- Gwen Arner
- Sean Astin
Mar 28, 2019 · Please Don’t Hit Me, Mom. High School Narc. Don’t Touch. From 1972 to 1996, no topic was too taboo for the ABC Afterschool Special, an anthology series that aired every other Wednesday...
Nancy and Michael (Guest) hit it off and she babysits Bryan (Astin) while Michael is at basketball practise. After Nancy notices apparent signs of child abuse inflicted on Bryan, she learns more about the subject and the best way to report it.
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Please Don't Hit Me, Mom is a 1981 American television drama film directed by Gwen Arner.
The film aired on September 20, 1981 on the ABC network as an "ABC Theater for Young Americans" presentation.
A babysitter (Nancy McKeon) suspects that a young boy (Sean Astin) is being physically abused by his mother (Patty Duke Astin).
•Patty Duke Astin as Barbara Reynolds
•Nancy McKeon as Nancy Parks
•Sean Astin as Brian Reynolds
•Lance Guest as Michael Reynolds
•Deena Freeman as Judy
•Terrence Beasor as Parks
"Please Don't Hit Me, Mom" was originally produced as an "ABC Afterschool Special." Although it aired in prime time as an "ABC Theater for Young Americans" presentation, it finally aired as an "ABC Afterschool Special" on January 19, 1983.
After its initial release, social workers who specialize in child abuse cases have cited the film as a learning tool where child abuse cases are now successfully prosecuted in a court of law once a successful case is established, and also involves local law enforcement & case workers who officially document child abuse cases.
While Sean Astin was filming a scene where his character was being abused by his mother (played by his mother, Patty Duke), Astin found it hard to cry and would laugh hysterically instead because it reminded him of situations that their family had been in.
Then, Duke took her son aside and told him,
Carol Krucoff from the Washington Post wrote:
Find out how to watch Please Don't Hit Me, Mom. Stream Please Don't Hit Me, Mom, watch trailers, see the cast, and more at TV Guide.
Synopsis. A babysitter realizes that one of the children she looks after is being physically abused by his mother.
