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The Boy Can't Help It

Type: TV - Single documentary
Released: 2001
Length: 60 min.
Directed by: Min Clough

Crew

Sound Fraser Barber

Editor Steve Barclay

Full credits (Main credits only)

Themes

Status

  • Broadcast within UK

Synopsis:

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The filmmakers return to catch up with John Davidson, the teenager with Tourette's Syndrome who featured in the famous BBC documentary John's Not Mad and who is now an adult.

The film also follows eight-year old Greg, a boy with a milder form of the syndrome, and explores how awareness and attitudes have changed in the sixteen years between the two films.
Synopsis:
The filmmakers return to catch up with John Davidson, the teenager with Tourette's Syndrome who featured in the famous BBC documentary John's Not Mad and who is now an adult.

The film also follows eight-year old Greg, a boy with a milder form of the syndrome, and explores how awareness and attitudes have changed in the sixteen years between the two films.
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