Dawn Anna is a television movie based on real events that premiered on Lifetime in 2005. The movie depicts the life of Dawn Anna Townsend, a volleyball coach at Columbine High School, who sufferes a severe brain disease. Soon after Dawn recovers, her daughter Lauren Townsend is killed in the Columbine High School massacre. A television movie (also known as a TV movie, TV-movie, feature-length drama, made-for-TV movie, single drama, telemovie, telefilm, or two-hour-long drama) is a film that is produced for and originally distributed by a television network. ... The Lifetime 20th Anniversary logo, used 2004. ... 2005(MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Volleyball is a popular sport where two teams, separated by a high net, hit a ball back and forth over the net between the teams. ... Columbine High School is a secondary school located at 6201 South Pierce Street in a part of unincorporated Jefferson County, Colorado, defined as Columbine CDP. The school lies a half mile south of the Denver city limits and one mile west of the Littleton city limits. ... Staff and Students evacuate Columbine High School shortly after the shooting The Columbine High School massacre occurred on Tuesday, April 20, 1999 at Columbine High School in Jefferson County, Colorado, near Denver and Littleton, Colorado, in the United States. ...
Cynics might dismiss "DawnAnna" as a tearjerker, but what if it is? Life is a tearjerker, after all.
"DawnAnna" is yet another saga of a Lifetime superwoman, but Debra Winger in the title role helps make her entirely and encouragingly believable, as does the sensitive direction by Less R. Howard, probably a pseudonym for Arliss Howard, Winger's husband.
Not everything Anna and her four children do is praiseworthy and righteous, but there's an absence of petty bickering and no trace of maliciousness.
DawnAnna Townsend (Winger) is a single mother who has made the most of a sometimes difficult life -- despite raising four children alone on a teacher's salary, she loves her family, enjoys her work, and finds time to coach the school's volleyball team as well as start a new romance.
However, DawnAnna is handed an even greater challenge when she's diagnosed with a brain tumor; while surgery saves her life, she can no longer speak or walk, and must learn to do these things all over again.
With the help of her loved ones, DawnAnna bucks the odds and teaches herself to lead a normal life again, but another tragedy is waiting for her around the corner.
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