Far from the Tree

A poignant, insightful, eye-opening, thought-provoking, 93-minute, 2017 documentary based on Andrew Solomon's bestselling, award-winning book that chronicles the lives of various people, including a man with Down syndrome who lives with two men with Down Syndrome and call themselves the "three Musketeers" while his elderly mother worries about his future after she is gone, a married couple with dwarfism who desperately want a child and a dwarf teenager who wants just to fit in, a distraught couple struggling to deal with their teenage son who will be incarcerated for life after killing an 8-year-old boy, concerned parents struggling to give their autistic son a rewarding life, and a gay man who just wants to find love and have a family, coping with everyday life and challenges.
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