Children on Their Birthdays is a 2002 American

United States

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 independent film

Independent film

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 directed by Mark Medoff

Mark Medoff

Mark Medoff is an American playwright, screenwriter, film and theatre director, actor, and professor. His play Children of a Lesser God received both the Tony Award and the Olivier Award...

. The screenplay written by Douglas Sloan

Douglas Sloan

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 is based on "Children on Their Birthdays

Children on Their Birthdays (short story)

"Children on Their Birthdays" is a short story by Truman Capote, published serially in the late 1940s and appearing in A Tree of Night and Other Stories in 1949; it is noted as one of his better quality early short stories.-Conception:...

", the short story of the same title by Truman Capote

Truman Capote

Truman Streckfus Persons , known as Truman Capote , was an American author, many of whose short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction are recognized literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's and the true crime novel In Cold Blood , which he labeled a "nonfiction novel." At...

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Plot

In the summer of 1947, a pretentious eleven-year-old girl is liked by two older boys. They compete for her love but in the end it is in vain.

Production

The film was shot in Aurora

Aurora, Illinois

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, Lemont

Lemont, Illinois

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 and Chicago

Chicago

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, Illinois

Illinois

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Critical reception

Children on Their Birthdays maintains a 6.3 star rating out of 10 on the IMDb. It won the Platinum Award for Independent Theatrical Feature Films - Family/Children at WorldFest Houston.