Well acted

Alley won an Emmy for playing a feisty single mother of a severely autistic teenage son, and she certainly delivers a ballsy performance as she tries to bring him up on her own, only belatedly realising that maybe her sister and boyfriend are right, and that she's taken on more than she can handle. Michael Goorjian (another Emmy winner) is extraordinarily convincing as the damaged David. Just a pity that this poignant tale is delivered in such a saccharine manner.