Teenage Father is a 1978 American short film directed by Taylor Hackford and starring Timothy Wead. In 1979, it won an Oscar for Best Short Subject at the 51st Academy Awards.
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Plot
Filmed as a pseudo-documentary, the film follows 17-year-old John Travis and 15-year-old Kim in the last few months of her pregnancy. The documentary filmmakers interview the couple as well as their friends and family about their perspectives on the matter. John is interested in adoption but Kim is more interested in keeping her child. In the final scene of the film the child has been born and John views his son in the nursery but by that point Kim is no longer speaking to him and does not let him visit her in her room, leaving John distraught about the future.
Cast
Tim Wead as John
Suzanne Crough as Kim
Ken Sansom as John's Father
Lette Rehnolds as John's Mother
Jeannie Dimter Barton Kim's Mother
Gary Mathew as Skip
Paul Wolff as Denny
Roland Meza as Roland
Wesley Thompson as Charlie
Denise Davis as Wanda
Devin Buchanan as Devin
Susan Cronkite as Social Worker
Production
The film was a public education film from Children's Home Society of California. Susan Cronkite, who plays the social worker in the film, was an actual social worker for Children's Home Society at the time of filming.