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My Mother Was Never a Kid (1981)

My Mother Was Never a Kid poster
Directed by
Robert Fuest
Genre
teen film
Country
United States of America
Runtime
46 min
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A teenager thinks her mother was never young like her. She later gets a chance to travel back in time and meets her mother as a teenager. They learn to understand each other better.

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What happens

"My Mother Was Never a Kid" is a 1981 episode of the American television anthology series ABC Afterschool Special, which aired on March 16, 1981. It was based on the 1977 Francine Pascal novel Hangin' Out With CiCi, which in turn was the first teen novel in the "Victoria Martin" trilogy series. It was also the first of two Pascal teen novels that were adapted into Afterschool Specials for the network, the other being The Hand-Me-Down Kid. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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