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Dustbin Baby is a BBC television film directed by Juliet May, based on Jacqueline Wilson's 2001 novel of the same name. It was first broadcast on BBC One on 21 December 2008. The film stars Dakota Blue Richards as April, a troubled teenager who was abandoned in a dustbin as an infant, and Juliet Stevenson as Marion Bean, April's adoptive mother.
- 21 December 2008
The film follows the story of young teen April whose troubled life began in a dustbin - a new born baby, abandoned and alone, not celebrated, not wanted but discarded and left like so much rubbish in an industrial bin behind a pizza parlour.
- 89 min
- 8.2K
- Eveready Cat
It focuses on April, a fourteen-year-old girl who was abandoned by her mother in a dustbin when she was only a few minutes old. After a blazing row with her foster mother, she goes in search of her past. The book was adapted into a television film in 2008 by the BBC .
- 144
- Doubleday Children's Books
- 1 October 2001
- Jacqueline Wilson
Dec 21, 2008 · Dustbin Baby: Directed by Juliet May. With Dakota Blue Richards, Juliet Stevenson, Saffron Coomber, Poppy Lee Friar. The film follows the story of young teen April whose troubled life began in a dustbin - a new born baby, abandoned and alone, not celebrated, not wanted but discarded and left like so much rubbish in an industrial bin behind a ...
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- Drama, Family
- Juliet May
- 2008-12-21
Dustbin Baby is about a April, a troubled teenager who was abandoned in a dustbin as an infant and searches for her past.
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- Juliet May
- Drama
- Dakota Blue Richards
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After an argument with her foster mother, 14-year-old April runs away to try to track down her biological mother who abandoned her as a newborn and disappeared. 102 IMDb 7.1 1 h 29 min 2008. 7+.
