Movie: Audrey’s Children: The True Story of Dr. Audrey Evans - In Theaters March 28

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March 28, 2025

AUDREY'S CHILDREN tells the untold true story of visionary British physician Dr. Audrey Evans, who burst onto the scene in 1969 as the first female Chief of Oncology at the world-renowned Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. 

Battling sexism, medical conventions, and the subterfuge of her peers, Evans developed the first Neuroblastoma Staging System, co-founded the first Ronald McDonald House for families of patients, and, ultimately, impacted the lives of millions of children and families around the world. 

When Dr. Evans started her work, only 10 % of children with cancer survived, now nearly 80% survive. Rated PG. https://www.audreyschildren.com/

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My review: As a young adult contemporary of the featured heroin, Audrey Evans, I can positively say that this film truthfully depicts that time when women were still considered inferior to men in position, intellect, power, and person and they were shuffled aside as unknowing and unwelcome. But Audrey persisted and plowed through the mores of the time using her determination, her intellect, her intuition, and her deeply caring spirit to persist in developing a methodology to cancer treatment that has generated wonderfully amazing results in survival rates.

As a pediatric oncology scientist and doctor she was been given the position as head of pediatric oncology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and yet she still is not respected quantitatively. But she persists. And in her love of her small patients and her unfailing desire to bring healing to them, she see a way through. But a new treatment plan must be rational and there must be reason behind changes. So she and a couple of others begin to piece the data together. This is done in an archaic method of sticky notes on the wall. But they do it and find the breakthrough.

So begins a two-drug treatment and five-level-staging to categorize the patients for treatment. And it's a winner.

This is an absolutely delightfully rewarding film about Audrey and her trail-blazing career. I found the acting excellent. The emotional portrayals are intense from co-worker's rebuttals to parental tears at a dying child's beside. And the portrayal of Audrey herself was that of a proper yet feisty, quirky yet traditional, intensely intellectual yet momentarily lacking in common sense driven individual. Superb filming with settings absolutely like 1960s and 1970s hospital corridors and basements. I am so glad to have had the opportunity to view this movie.

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