Walter (Tv Movie)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Walter is a television drama first broadcast on the launch night of Channel 4 on 2 November 1982. Based on a 1978 novel of the same name by David Cook, it was the first ever Film on Four.The film was directed by Stephen Frears and stars Ian McKellen as Walter, a man with a learning disability. The story focuses on what happens when his father dies and his mother, feeling unable to support him on her own, agrees for him to be moved into an institution.