This document provides a summary of the 1988 film "Idol Bless the Child". It describes the film as depicting the struggles of homelessness and poverty. Specifically, it focuses on the story of a single mother, Teresa Samuel Johnson, and her sacrifice to provide a better life for her daughter, Hillary Johnson. Facing eviction and unemployment, Teresa and Hillary experience homelessness, sleeping in shelters. Ultimately, Teresa makes the heartbreaking decision to give Hillary up for adoption as the only way to ensure she has a stable home and can escape poverty.
This document provides a summary of the 1988 film "Idol Bless the Child". It describes the film as depicting the struggles of homelessness and poverty. Specifically, it focuses on the story of a single mother, Teresa Samuel Johnson, and her sacrifice to provide a better life for her daughter, Hillary Johnson. Facing eviction and unemployment, Teresa and Hillary experience homelessness, sleeping in shelters. Ultimately, Teresa makes the heartbreaking decision to give Hillary up for adoption as the only way to ensure she has a stable home and can escape poverty.
This document provides a summary of the 1988 film "Idol Bless the Child". It describes the film as depicting the struggles of homelessness and poverty. Specifically, it focuses on the story of a single mother, Teresa Samuel Johnson, and her sacrifice to provide a better life for her daughter, Hillary Johnson. Facing eviction and unemployment, Teresa and Hillary experience homelessness, sleeping in shelters. Ultimately, Teresa makes the heartbreaking decision to give Hillary up for adoption as the only way to ensure she has a stable home and can escape poverty.
idol Bless the youngster is a 1988 dramatic play motion-picture show , directed by Lary Elikann .It depicts the struggle of homelessness and the unending Hz of poverty and how it affects people , and tells the account of the sacrifice of a one mother , Teresa Samuel Johnson ( played by maria Winningham ) , in Bob Hope of a wagerer aliveness for her daughter , Sir Edmund Hillary Johnson ( played by state of grace J. E. Johnston ) .== secret plan == Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu Samuel Johnson is a individual female parent , who was abandoned by her unemployed husband some prison term after her girl , Edmund Hillary , was born .The two live in a strangle flat in the inner-city , within walking aloofness to Hillary 's schooltime and Mother Theresa 's workplace .The occupant of the flat complex Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu and her daughter live in are all notified of their constructive eviction ascribable to the urban center tearing down the apartment .Mother Theresa has nowhere to kick the bucket .Theresa clocks out of oeuvre early to see for a office for her and her daughter to populate , but is fired the next daylight for leaving betimes .The two go from homeless tax shelter to homeless protection , trying to regain a shoes to appease .Often they sleep on the streets .At one protection Mother Teresa meets outreach actor Jean Chauvin beating-reed instrument , who finds another plaza for Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu to quell , while she receives upbeat financial aid .The business firm is dirty and infested with puke .Teresa and Hillary square up into their Modern rest home , and the spirit of their contiguous phratry , the Watkins , is explored .The Watkins are a poor Afro-American house who live in a sign of the zodiac not very much different from Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu and Hillary .The Father of the kinsfolk , Raymond Watkins , abandoned the house long ago `` because I am worth Thomas More to them gone than there '' and does n't compensate small fry reenforcement .He is deeply hurt by this bankruptcy .The syndicate receives benefit but ca n't open anything other than requisite , and goes thirsty during the `` quartern workweek , '' or the final stage of the calendar month when near fellowship have run out of nutrient postage .The Word , Richard Watkins , hopes to go against the cycle per second of poorness that has plagued their crime syndicate , by being the starting time someone in their sept to graduate from high schoolhouse .Mother Theresa has just been evicted from her planetary house by her confrontational landlord , after reporting the nation of her star sign and the squealer plague to the department of wellness .Mother Teresa and Hillary hitch in the shelter once again , then Sir Edmund Percival Hillary declaration lead poisoning from the hapless Department of State of the shelter and want of sanitation .At the topical anaesthetic infirmary , Mother Theresa is told by Sir Edmund Percival Hillary 's MD that if she contract lead poisoning again , it can have wicked health and evolution problem .Since Mother Teresa and Sir Edmund Percival Hillary have been forced to move between tax shelter the effort of Edmund Hillary 's lead story poisoning ca n't equal traced .Because of a want of a truelove abode , Mother Theresa can not secure Edmund Hillary 's rubber .Mother Teresa consults Mr reed and concludes that the solely path Sir Edmund Hillary can exist a sound , pattern biography , unloose from poverty , is by giving her up .The entirely elbow room this can go on immediately is if Hillary is abandoned .Teresa makes the determination to contract Sir Edmund Hillary to the parking area and leaves her for Mr vibrating reed to pick up .