After seeing this film, I am heartbroken and outraged. Outraged that Katie was ripped away time and again from the only person who had her best interest at heart. But, I'm disappointed that this movie only found its audience by way of a low budget indie movie. Mr. Davenport antagonistically replied to another viewer's comments which only shows that his ego likely got in the way of this movie possibly being the kind of film that creates a dialogue and inspires change. The only actor with any skill is Melissa Errico, but even her lines fell a little short at times. I think the director was lazy at how Katie was shuffled from place to place. Who ever in the world has heard of a hospital NOT allowing someone with rubella to enter? They could have just put her in an isolation room. The social worker at DSS was ridiculous. "The problem is with Katie, not the foster family." Please. And this being such a high profile case, Katie would have had a social worker documenting every step she made. If she had stopped talking and begun mutilating herself, she would have been moved. It would have been better if the social worker, the doctors, even the mother had tried harder to help her but got stalled by a CPS system that is broken and doesn't protect the children. But for every person except Sandra not to give a crap is just dumb. CPS isn't going to just arbitrarily give a special needs kid back to the mother who stayed silent while her daughter was tortured for 13 years. She would have had supervised visits, had to apply for custody...I mean, the number of inconsistencies are just outrageous. And I'm really sad about that. This could have been a great movie. It was good. Mostly good.
Review of Mockingbird Don't Sing
