Beyond Our Means

Beyond Our Means

1973

A couple invite an old school friend for a reunion dinner, it is during the conversation (with the friend now an eminent surgeon) the couple come to the stark realization that their son is showing symptoms of a looming brain tumour.

Directed by Peter Moffatt · Written by Rosemary Anne Sisson

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