Pig Heart Boy (1999)
1h 44m
Running Time
December 7, 1999
Release Date
Pig Heart Boy (1999)
1h 44m
Running Time
December 7, 1999
Release Date
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Plot.
Cameron, a 13-year-old boy whose heart is failing. The only possible solution is an experimental transplant operation in which he's given a pig's heart. His father is determined to try anything to keep him alive, but his mother is not so sure.
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Cast & Crew.
Marlon Yearwood
Cameron Kelsey
Patrick Robinson
Tyler Kelsey
Clare Perkins
Cathy Kelsey
Jonathan De Herit
Marlon Bainbridge
Mona Hammond
Nan Preston
Ben Anstey
Daryl
Simon Williams
Professor Rae
Malorie Blackman
Writer
Carolyn Sally Jones
Writer
Michael Lumsden
John Bainbridge
Kate Cheeseman
Director
Georgia Mitchell
Erica Bainbridge
Rachel Bisdee
Julie Martin
Details.
Wiki.
Pig-Heart Boy is a children's novel by Malorie Blackman, which was first published in 1997. It shows the life of a teenage boy who undergoes a heart transplant. It was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and adapted into a television series, which was broadcast by Children's BBC in 1999.
Thirteen-year-old Cameron Kelsey has a serious heart condition and really needs a new heart. He gets the opportunity to get a new heart but it’s not a human heart, it’s a pig heart. He under goes the surgery but it fails the heart doesn't work and he under goes different surgeries.