Spoonface Steinberg (1998)
Television film version of Lee Hall's award-winning radio play. Spoonface is seven years old, Jewish, autistic - and terminally ill with cancer. As she tries to come to terms with the meaning of life and death, she draws inspiration from the prisoners in the Nazi concentration camps who died with dignity and their spirit unbowed.
- Date of release
- 1998-03-30
- TMDB
- 8.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 50m
- Genres
- TV Movie, Drama
- Director
- Betsan Morris Evans
Casting
- Linda Bassett — Mrs. Spud
- Helen McCrory — Mother
- Mark Strong — Father
- Ella Jones — Spoonface Steinberg
Interesting facts
Spoonface Steinberg is a play by British playwright Lee Hall, first broadcast as a dramatic monologue on BBC Radio 4 on Monday 27 January 1997. Such was the popular acclaim that the BBC repeated it on Radio 4 the following Saturday afternoon.
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