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| Title | Paperhouse (1988) | | Alternative/Original Title | | | Disability | General Muscular Dystrophy | | Country | UK | | Length | 94 | | Genre | Drama | | Rating | 3 | | Director | Bernard Rose
| | Cast | Charlotte Burke Elliott Spiers Glenne Headly Ben Cross Gemma Jones Sarah Newbold
| | Notes | The film centres around an 11 year old girl who becomes ill. During her illness she draws to pass the time. One of these drawings is of a house and a boy. Whenever she sleeps or faints she dreams of the house and the boy. The boy is paralysed from the waist down. Her doctor mentions he has a young boy, Mark, as a patient. Despite one review saying he has cerebral palsy the boy according to the doctor has muscular dystrophy. She overhears that Mark has had a relapse, a chest infection. She thinks her drawings and dreams are connected with his condition. She ends up in hospital needing a heart massage. Mark has gone home to die. In her dreams the boy can walk but in reality he dies. A film has very little to do with disability and seems to me a piece of fantasy with a few ideas. Not very satifactory. From Catherine Storr's children's novel MARIANNE DREAMS. Previously a British television serial, ESCAPE INTO NIGHT.
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