Why, Charlie Brown, Why? (1990) on Netflix
A new girl, Janice Emmons, arrives at school and Linus is smitten. She bruises easily, goes home ill, and days later Linus and Charlie Brown learn she is in the hospital.
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Plot summary
Charlie Brown, Linus, Sally and their classmate Janice Emmons wait for the school bus, and Linus is smitten with Janice. Boarding, she bangs her arm on the railing, and a bruise forms; she says she never used to bruise so easily. At school she feels ill and is sent home, and three days later her classmates learn she is in the hospital. Linus and Charlie Brown visit her there, and Janice tells them she has leukemia. She describes the tests the doctors ran, explains her chemotherapy and shows them her IV line, and says she intends to return to school. Linus, shaken, asks Charlie Brown why this happened to her.
Cast
- Adrienne Stiefelas Sally Brown (voice)
- Kaleb Henleyas Charlie Brown (voice)
- Dion Zamoraas The Bully (voice)
- Brittany Thorntonas Little Sister (voice)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Why, Charlie Brown, Why? (1990)
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- Sylvia Cook, a registered nurse at the Stanford Children's Hospital, wrote to Charles M. Schulz in December 1985 asking him to make a short animated film about cancer for young patients. Input from the American Cancer Society convinced the doubtful Schulz to make a half-hour special rather than a five-minute film.
- Producer Bill Melendez and CBS initially balked at turning the idea into a half-hour special about cancer, but went ahead because of Charles M. Schulz's enthusiasm for the project.
- The special became a teaching tool, shown in hospitals and in elementary and junior high schools to explain cancer to children, and it is part of the Pennies for Patients fundraiser run by The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
