Within These Walls

Aug 20, 2001

1h 40m

★ 5.2

Hope lives in unlikely places.

Overview

Female prisoners train dogs to aid people with disabilities in a program started by a nun (Laura Dern).

Genres

Drama

TV Movie

Production Companies

Von Zerneck Sertner Films

Lifetime

Within These Walls Trailers

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Cast

Joan Thomas

Ellen Burstyn

Sister Pauline Quinn

Laura Dern

Melinda Donovan

LaTanya Richardson Jackson

Leda Cervantes

Maria Herrera

Eliza

Lucinda Davis

Kelly

Tony Calabretta

Emily

Kristin Fairlie

Sister Katherine

Eve Crawford

Eliza's Mother

Marium Carvell

Tito

Walter Alza

When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire rent by the end of the month or he and his small dog will be turned out onto the street. Unable to get the money in time, Umberto fakes illness to get sent to a hospital, giving his beloved dog to the landlady's pregnant and abandoned maid for temporary safekeeping.

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