AUDREY’S CHILDREN

Name: AUDREY’S CHILDREN
Item: AUDREY’S CHILDREN
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"Her Work Changed Cancer Treatment Forever"

Family Content: +1 Moderately questionable elements. (Discernment required for young children.)

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AUDREY’S CHILDREN tells the true story of Dr. Audrey Evans. Audrey is a pediatric oncologist who works tirelessly to revolutionize the treatment of neuroblastoma, a form of nerve cancer usually found in children under 5. The movie begins in 1969, as Dr. Evans starts her job at a Philadelphia hospital. Dr. Evans works constantly to save the lives of her young patients, does whatever she can to make their families’ lives easier and raises money for her groundbreaking cancer research. She was instrumental in establishing the first Ronald McDonald House.

AUDREY’S CHILDREN is an incredibly moving movie, telling the true story of Dr. Audrey Evans’ deep compassion and tireless work on behalf of her patients and their families. The movie is well produced, with a touching script and an amazing performance from lead actress Natalie Dormer. AUDREY’S CHILDREN has a strong moral worldview with strong Christian elements. The script includes references to God and Heaven. AUDREY’S CHILDREN has one instance of strong foul language and some lying and sneaking, but there’s no other objectionable content. MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for younger children.

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Very strong moral worldview with strong Christian elements where a female doctor and her colleagues are wholly focused on doing what they can to save the lives of their young patients, the doctor is also concerned with her patients’ families and helps them whenever she can, eventually helping to establish the first Ronald McDonald House, plus there are also references to God and Heaven, including doctor tells a patient God made the sunset look pretty just for her, and the two talk about what Heaven is like and how those who are there are still with us;

Foul Language:

One obscenity;

Violence:

No violence, but the movie deals with helping young children survive nerve cancer;

Sex:

No sex;

Nudity:

No nudity;

Alcohol Use:

No alcohol use;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

No drugs, but a man smokes a cigarette in one scene, but another man tells him it’s a “filthy habit”; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

The doctor in the movie is willing to do whatever it takes to get her trial off the ground, many scenes involve the doctor going through fellow doctors’ files and sneaking into other hospitals to access their records and lying to several people while trying to secure funding to purchase a house for families of patients, and administering the “combination chemotherapy” on a patient without approval from the hospital.

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AUDREY’S CHILDREN tells the incredible true story of Dr. Audrey Evans, a pediatric oncologist who worked tirelessly to revolutionize the treatment of neuroblastoma, a form of nerve cancer usually found in children under 5, as well as establish the first Ronald McDonald House.

AUDREY’S CHILDREN begins in 1969, as Dr. Audrey Evans starts her new job at a Philadelphia hospital. She’s passionate about a new form of treatment, “combination chemotherapy,” but when she pitches it at a meeting to ask for funding for a trial, she’s told it would take at least a year to get the trial up and running.

Dr. Evans refuses to take no for an answer and goes to a pharmaceutical company herself to ask for sponsorship and funding. They agree, and she begins the trial, testing the treatment on animals. While she works on the trial test, Dr. Evans notices that parents and families of the children she treats are struggling to find places to stay while their children are in the hospital. She even invites one mother, who had traveled to Philadelphia from Tennessee and couldn’t find a place to stay, to come stay with her.

The study’s results are not coming fast enough for Dr. Evans’ supervisors, and she’s told to shut it down. However, after providing new hypotheses, Dr. Evans is allowed to continue the study for two more weeks. She also gets the idea to purchase a house that would be meant for families to stay in while their children are being treated at the hospital, but she’s unable to secure funding.

Dr. Evans tries out her “combination chemotherapy” treatment on a young girl, which later leads to her suspension from her job. While suspended, the mother who had stayed with Dr. Evans returns to see her. She tells her that her son’s tumor has vanished. Will this result turn things around for Dr. Evans and the children?

AUDREY’S CHILDREN has a strong moral worldview with strong Christian elements. Dr. Evans works constantly to save the lives of her young patients, as well as do whatever she can to make their families’ lives easier and to raise money for cancer research. The script includes references to God and Heaven. AUDREY’S CHILDREN has one instance of strong foul language and some lying and sneaking around, but there’s no other objectionable content. MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for younger children.