Hear the Silence (2003)

Directed by

Tim Fywell

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 39m

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A mother learns about a possible link between the MMR vaccine and autism when her son is diagnosed with autism. The film follows her journey and features a doctor who researched the topic.

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What happens

Hear the Silence is a 2003 British semi-fictional drama television film based on the discredited idea of a potential link between the MMR vaccine and autism. By then, a contentious issue, the supposed connection originated in a paper by Andrew Wakefield published in 1998. The film was directed by Tim Fywell, written by Timothy Prager, and debuted on 15 December 2003 at 9 pm on the British network Five. Produced on a budget of £1 million, it stars Hugh Bonneville as Wakefield and Juliet Stevenson as Christine Shields, a fictional mother who discovers the possible MMR-autism link when her son is diagnosed as autistic. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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