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* DeadpanSnarker: Sally, to the point where other characters call her on her lack of concern for other people's feelings.
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* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: Sally views David's autism as a punishment and fantasizes about him waking up healed.
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* FreezeFrameEnding: On a shot of Sally about to leave [[spoiler:David's new institution]].
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* DoesntKnowTheirOwnChild: When Sally learns that Susan is pregnant, she says, "She's only eighteen!" Bea says, "She's nineteen."
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* BecauseYouCanCope: Sally tells her daughter Susan that she can take care of herself and David can't, and that's why she neglects her in favor of David.
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* EyesAlwaysAverted: When Sally tries to force eye contact on David, he looks away or squeezes his eyes shut.
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* PottyFailure: In a flashback, Sally picks David up from school and finds him sitting in a corner in his own urine. She criticizes the teacher for not noticing that he's wet himself.
* TheSpeechless: David grunts, moans, and occasionally screams.
* TheUnintelligible: As a child, David mutters unintelligibly.
* TheSpeechless: David grunts, moans, and occasionally screams.
* TheUnintelligible: As a child, David mutters unintelligibly.
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''David's Mother'' is a TV movie written by Bob Randall and directed by Robert Allan Ackerman that aired on Creator/{{CBS}} on April 10, 1994.
Sally Goodson (Creator/KirstieAlley) is a StrugglingSingleMother in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, raising her sixteen-year-old autistic son David (Michael Goorjian) and trying to avoid social worker Gladys Johnson (Creator/PhyliciaRashad), who is adamant that David should be in an institution. Her sister Bea (Creator/StockardChanning) sets her up with wallpaper salesman John Nils (Creator/SamWaterston), who thinks David could be capable of more.
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!!''David's Mother'' contains examples of:
* DaddyDidntShow: In a flashback, Susan complains about the fact that Sally missed her play because the babysitter canceled and she didn't want to leave David alone.
* DisappearedDad: Sally's ex-husband Philip (Creator/ChrisSarandon) moved to California because he couldn't deal with David's autism.
* FlashbackEffects: Every flashback opens with a POV shot from Sally's perspective, shot with a very low frame rate.
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Sally Goodson (Creator/KirstieAlley) is a StrugglingSingleMother in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, raising her sixteen-year-old autistic son David (Michael Goorjian) and trying to avoid social worker Gladys Johnson (Creator/PhyliciaRashad), who is adamant that David should be in an institution. Her sister Bea (Creator/StockardChanning) sets her up with wallpaper salesman John Nils (Creator/SamWaterston), who thinks David could be capable of more.
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!!''David's Mother'' contains examples of:
* DaddyDidntShow: In a flashback, Susan complains about the fact that Sally missed her play because the babysitter canceled and she didn't want to leave David alone.
* DisappearedDad: Sally's ex-husband Philip (Creator/ChrisSarandon) moved to California because he couldn't deal with David's autism.
* FlashbackEffects: Every flashback opens with a POV shot from Sally's perspective, shot with a very low frame rate.
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