Detailed plot synopsis reviews of A Child is Waiting; Ms. Jean Hansen is a fomer music teacher who'd recently took a position at the state instution for mentally disabled children. Screen Reader Users: To optimize your experience with your screen reading software, please use our Flixster.com website, which has the same tickets as our Fandango.com and MovieTickets.com websites. This film is emblematic of that kind of cinema. I was especially interested in the TV program: I was curious to see whether they were showing any old movies that day, and what it would be. A Child Is Waiting. “You know that he still waits for you?” Jean Hansen (Judy Garland) begins working at an institute for developmentally challenged children with little experience in much that has anything to do with it, but rather seeking to help. I remember marveling at how clear and lovely the image quality was the first time I saw A Child Is Waiting on a Turner Classic Movies broadcast. A Child Is Waiting Blu-ray Review. HOME; Film; Reviews; December 31, 1962 11:00PM PT A Child Is Waiting As in Judgment at Nuremberg, producer Stanley Kramer dips into productive source of … I saw that in the afternoon Laurel and Hardy were on, and in the evening, they were showing this film, the very fittingly titled A Child Is Waiting. Waiting I … Produced by Stanley Kramer, A Child Is Waiting is one of his trademark "social problem" pictures. Burt Lancaster is excellent playing the psychologist Dr. Matthew Clark, who is the director of Crawthorne State Mental Hospital (modeled the film’s school on the highly regarded Vineland Training School in New Jersey). A CHILD IS WAITING (United Artists, 1963), directed by John Cassavetes, is a groundbreaking study about mentally retarded children (today called mentally challenged), as seen through the eyes of Jean Hansen (Judy Garland), a new music teacher. Somewhat dated now, it still is a powerful look at mental illness among children, the best methods of reaching and teaching developmentally challenged individuals, and the role they should play in society. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing A Child Is Waiting near you. Actors: Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Gena Rowlands. Sadly that’s one of the types of film that I loathe. Video. Critic Reviews for A Child Is Waiting All Critics (13) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (12) | Rotten (1) Burt Lancaster delivers a firm, sincere, persuasive and unaffected performance. Thankfully, it appears that a similar pristine print (or digital restoration) was used on Kino's Studio Classics Blu-ray.