You Have No Idea

[Screens July 1 at 2:45 p.m. as part of the Dances with Film 26th Annual Film Festival that runs June 22-July 2 at the TCL Chinese 6 Theaters in Hollywood/Highland; for more information, log on to www.danceswithfilms.com.] Alexander Jeffery's award-winning, educational, poignant, moving, inspirational, candid, insightful, 86-minute documentary that follows tenacious and supportive mother Beth James Burns, who is the former South Arkansas Arts Center executive director, cancer-stricken father Dennis Burns who died in 2006, and stepfather Paul Burns in El Dorado, Ark., as they struggled to raise their Crohn's-afflicted son Evan and to give him a fulfilling and meaningful life after he was diagnosed in the 1990s with autism and with limited recommended treatment options, the entire family, including grandmother Charlotte, aunt Phyllis, and cousin Sydney, and other supportive people (such as first grade teacher Missy, Stepping Stones students Jason and Matthew, and nutritional coach Grace Terbrock), set out to develop strategies and teaching methods to help Evan.
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