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Baxter!

6.8

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Original title

Baxter!

Year

1973

Running time

102 min.

Country

United Kingdom

Director

Lionel Jeffries

Screenwriter

Reginald Rose. Novel: Kin Platt

Cast

Music

Michael J. Lewis

Cinematography

Geoffrey Unsworth

Producer

Co-production United Kingdom-United States;

Anglo-EMI, Group W, Hanna-Barbera Productions

Genre

Drama

Synopsis

The plot centers around a preteen boy with a speech impediment who goes to live with his abusive mother in England. He makes friends with the beautiful model (Britt Eklund) who lives upstairs and her French boyfriend (Jean Pierre Cassell). The boy suffers a psychotic break when he learns of the model's death and ends up in a catatonic state in a mental institution where his speech therapist (Patricia Neal) tries to reach out to him.

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Baxter!

1973

Lionel Jeffries

6.8

(28)