Special Olympics
Feb 22, 1978 | IMDB 6
100 min Watch NowTV Movie, Drama
A widowed father struggles to hold together his family of three teenagers, one of whom is intellectually challenged and enrolled in a state school for "special" children where he finds fulfillment in his love of sports, emulating his older, athletic brother.
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