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Wednesday's Children: David
198717 min 31 secFilm: Fiction
Direction: Kate Trotter
Production: Joe MacDonaldWolf Koenig
Script: Ruth Andrishak
David has been a welfare child since he was five, when his alcoholic mother handed him over to the system because she couldn't cope. He has a history of bolting from foster homes to search for his mother. We meet him as a street-smart kid of ten as he encounters a sympathetic businesswoman. One of a series of six short dramatic discussion starters for adolescents and adults on the subject of teenage alienation.
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Subject categories
- Law and Crime > AdolescentsJuvenile Delinquency
- Children and Youth > Family LifeJuvenile DelinquencyRunaways and Street Children
- Social Issues > Family LifeJuvenile DelinquencySocial Services
- Families > Juvenile DelinquencySocial Programs and Services
Credits
- director
- Kate Trotter
- producer
- Joe MacDonald
- Wolf Koenig
- script
- Ruth Andrishak
- cinematography
- David De Volpi
- sound
- Michel Charron
- editing
- Denise Beaudoin
- sound editing
- Jackie Newell
- re-recording
- Jean-Pierre Joutel
- cast
- David Gow
- Martha Henry
- Penny Mancuso
- Auriel Manolson
- R.H. Thomson