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Mother's Day (1989)

Mother's Day poster
Directed by
Susan Rohrer
Genre
drama
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 28m
Rating
7.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A mother fights to prove her teenage son is not guilty of a drug-related murder. She faces an overwhelming amount of evidence that points to him.

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What happens

Mother's Day is a 1989 American crime drama television film directed and produced by Susan Rohrer. The film follows a determined mother (played by Denise Nicholas) who battles a stacked deck of evidence incriminating her 19-year-old son (played by Malcolm-Jamal Warner) in the drug-related killing. It is the CBN Family Channel's first television film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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