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Movie
Jewel
Synopsis
Based on fact, the made-for-TV drama Jewel begins in 1945, a time when children afflicted with Down Syndrome were casually and cruelly dismissed as "Mongoloid Idiots." Already a mother with four healthy, normal children, 40-year-old Mississippi woman Jewel Hilburn (Farrah Fawcett) gives birth to daughter Brenda Kay, a Down's baby who will forever be challenged both mentally and physically. Urged by the local authorities to surrender Brenda Kay to an institution, Jewel defies the "experts" and packs herself and her family off to Los Angeles, where she hopes that her daughter will have a better chance at a normal life. But in her zeal to shower affection and attention on her "different little girl", Jewel sorely strains her relationships with her husband Leston (Patrick Bergin) and her other four kids. Cicely Tyson makes what the CBS publicity flacks labeled a "special appearance" in the role of a loving caregiver named Cathedral. Based on the novel by Bret Lott, Jewel originally aired February 7, 2001.
Cast
- Farrah Fawcett
- Cicely Tyson
- Patrick Bergin
- Ashley Wolfe
- Robin Dunne
- Peter Donaldson
- Laura Mercer
- Kelly Harms
- Ron Payne
- Kristin Booth
- Natalie Radford
- Sonia Lynn Kerr
- Alexis Vandermaelen
- Rachel Skarsten
- Kyle Fairlie
- Max Morrow
- Charlotte Arnold
- Ardon Bess
- Gema Zamprogna
- Dallas Goyo
- Isabella Fink
- Toby Proctor
- Lynne Griffin
- Shawn Lawrence
- Geoffrey Bowes
- Dylan Harman
- Nola Augustson
- Kenny Freeman
- Nola Auguston
- Kim Roberts
- Jayne Bickmore
- Stacia Langdon
- Lori Cooke
- Maggie Huculak
- Sean Bell
- Simon Richards
- Bret Lott
- Frank Tidy
- Susan Cooper
- Paul Kaufman
- Neil Grieve
- Guy Lalande
- Geoffrey Rowland