Spoonface Steinberg

Television film version of Lee Hall's award-winning radio play. Spoonface is seven years old, Jewish, autistic - and terminally ill with cancer. As she tries to come to terms with the meaning of life and death, she draws inspiration from the prisoners in the Nazi concentration camps who died with dignity and their spirit unbowed.

Cast

Linda Bassett

as Mrs. Spud

Helen McCrory

as Mother

Mark Strong

as Father

Ella Jones

as Spoonface Steinberg

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