A Place for Annie

Moving drama about a doctor who adopts a baby with the HIV virus. Susan is so moved by the plight of baby Annie that she volunteers to care for the child herself, only to face an emotional upheaval when the real mother, Linda, returns to claim her baby 12 months later. Desperate to stay close to the child she has come to regard as her own, Susan invites Linda to stay with her, much to the horror of her family., Susan is a nurse in a neo-natal care unit when she is drawn to an abandoned baby who is HIV-positive and whom she decides to adopt. But she has difficulty finding a nanny who will care for such an infant, and then must also deal with the child’s AIDS-infected mother, who returns to take custody of her daughter.”, Baby Annie is HIV positive and has been left in the clinic by her drug addicted mother., In this touching Hallmark Hall of Fame Production, Annie Marsten, an HIV-positive baby, is abandoned by her parents at the hospital. Susan Lansing, a single mother and neo-natal nurse, has a soft spot for Annie and decides to adopt her. A year later, Annie’s natural mother returns, demanding custody of her daughter. Susan is faced with finding a solution where she doesn’t lose her daughter., Heartstring-tugger about a nurse who adopts Annie, an infant abandoned by her drug-addict mother. Susan takes the child in, but she must face the cynicism of her friends and overcome her own prejudice when Annie’s real mum shows up seeking custody., In this touching drama, a kind-hearted pediatric nurse tries to adopt an HIV-positive baby and ends up taking care of its troubled, dying mother as well., The care of an HIV-infected infant is shared by the child’s foster mother (Sissy Spacek) and her birth mother (Mary-Louise Parker), who’s stricken with AIDS. Dorothy: Joan Plowright. Alice: S. Epatha Merkerson. David: Jack Noseworthy. Dr. Palmer: David Spielberg. Edna: Robin Pearson Rose. Based on fact. John Gray directed.