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- Mockingbird Don't Sing is a 2001 American independent film based on the true story of Genie, a modern-day feral child. The film is told from the point of view of Susan Curtiss (whose fictitious name is Sandra Tannen), a professor of linguistics at University of California, Los Angeles.
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In Los Angeles, 1970, Katie Standon, a girl who has been imprisoned in her room (and without any human contact) since the age of one, is now thirteen years old.
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The tragic true story of one of the worst cases of child abuse ever documented (in which a girl was locked in a room without social contact for nearly thirteen years) and what happened when she was finally rescued.
Oct 17, 2002 · By Scott Foundas. The spirit of Robert Aldrich is alive and well in Harry Bromley-Davenport’s “Mockingbird Don’t Sing,” a sensationalized screen treatment of the headline-grabbing “Genie”...
1 hr 39 mins. Drama. NR. Watchlist. Where to Watch. A fact-based account of a therapist's attempts to help a teenage "wild child" who was locked in isolated squalor by her unbalanced...
“Mockingbird Don’t Sing,” begins by focusing in depressing, literal detail on the victimization of the little girl, here called Genie (newcomer Tarra Steele). Once she is rescued, the issue becomes how to learn from Genie’s case while also teaching her to speak and preparing her for some kind of a decent life.
Mockingbird Don't Sing: Directed by Harry Bromley Davenport. With Melissa Errico, Joe Regalbuto, Sean Young, Michael Lerner. Based on the actual events of one of the most horrific cases of child abuse ever to be documented, this haunting drama tells the tale of a young girl who was locked in a room for over 12 years.
Directed by: Harry Bromley-Davenport. The true story of one of the worst and most horrific child abuse cases on record, where a little girl was kept locked in a room for over 12 years.
