Special Olympics

Special Olympics (1978)

February 22nd, 19781h 40min

TV Movie, Drama
60%

Overview

A widowed father struggles to hold together his family of three teenagers, one of whom is intellectually challenged and enrolled in a state school for "special" children where he finds fulfillment in his love of sports, emulating his older, athletic brother.


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