i be very disappointed with dawn anna . i have be an avid columbine researcher for nearly a year or so now and be highly look forward to this movie . i almost feel horrible say the movie be bad simply because it be all true event and tragic nonetheless . so and before i begin and i think the story itself be fascinate and inspiring and but it come across weak in this movie . the story be dawn anna be a single mother of four terrific kid who be in desperate need of a job . so and in less than ten minute and she get one a a teacher . and five minute from that and she decide to be the volleyball coach after meet nice guy bink and who want to take her out to dinner and in no time and theyre an official couple . the kid seem to warm up to him quickly except one and but a sudden turn of event put that on hold . dawn anna discovers ( after tumble around in school and forgetting thing easily ) that she have some sort of brain tumor and it need to be remove via open the skull . so and in the span of fifteen minute and dawn be check by a doctor and a diagnosis be make and she attempt to have it remove one way ( which fail ) and then she have to official surgery and get it remove . from there and we see that after the surgery and dawn be unable to speak or walk . so and the kid and bink ( they all like him now ) take it a their responsibility to help her . she learn to speak and walk in roughly fifteen more minute after go through physical therapy and reading flashcard . she finally allow to go home and bink finally propose to her . some even a few day after ( or second and depend on who time your on ) and dawn be tuck in her daughter lauren and who up until now wasn not the main focus whatsoever and and we zip up to five year later ( 1999 ) . lauren be now the only child still live at home . all of a sudden and lauren become a more interesting character and a large focal point . be now about an hour an fifteen minute into the movie . after a brief subplot of lauren sister get engage and lauren have an extremely weird discussion with her mother ( which be throw in there simply to show the relationship between them and i believe ) and we get to the columbine story . after lauren be drop off at her school and a young man be wear a columbine jacket and which be the first we hear about what school officially she attend . a commercial break occur with police siren in the fade out . once we understand what be go on and dawn rush home to watch the news story in bewilderment ( these be real news cast from the event as well ) . the family gather around and victim advocate come to the house to get information on her daughter . they announce her daughter be a victim on tv the next day and make it official . this all happen in ten minute . we spend no time worry for her daughter or see the grow panic in the household because be run out of time . the film end with the family try to get back on their foot and dawn become a public speaker on gun control . she end by go to visit lauren grave ( which also look exactly like the real lauren townsend grave up close and so i think it probably be and but the crane shot doesn not look like the real cemetery ) . the film be dedicate to the life lose at columbine even though we barely spend any time think about it and we do not even seem to care about lauren until the film be more than half over . i think the story be just a jumble of event . they do not follow any distinct direction except the let just throw in one bad thing after another to show how this woman can overcome it all . the character development just wasn not there . i have study the real dawn anna and her daughter and lauren townsend and for some time now and and i can say that both be and be remarkable woman . debra winger be also a terrific actress who be often underrated . i be just disappoint with how both the acting and the story do not compliment each other . it seem like the movie be under such pressure to stuff everything into just two hour that we do not have time to even discuss where the real father be and the marriage between bink and dawn and or lauren be an extremely scholarly student ( she be name valedictorian posthumously at her graduation ) . if this film have be make into a two part series or even a mini series and i think it would have be much more effective and we could have get a lot more story line . unfortunately and i do not believe debra winger talent be use to their full potential and i do not believe the story of dawn anna and her daughter be of remote interest the way it be tell .