Jewel

Jewel

5.6IMDb Score
Released:2001-02-07
Duration:120 min
Director:Paul Shapiro
Actors:Farrah Fawcett, Patrick Bergin, Cicely Tyson, Robin Dunne, Peter Donaldson
Production:Alliance Films
Keywords:down syndrome

Overview:

In the 1940s a 40-year-old woman with five healthy children gives birth to a girl with Down's syndrome.

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