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Disneyland: The Girl Who Spelled Freedom (1986)
A Tennessee Family Adopts A Cambodian Family
A Christian family living in Tennessee puts their way of life on the line by taking a Cambodian refugee family into their home. Through differences in culture, language and the economic strain of new mouths to feed, the family struggles and adapts and helps the Cambodian family adjust to their new country. Along the way, the main character - a young girl, succeeds brilliantly. She is motivated by the fear of failure. The consequences of failure in her previous life were death. Her drive to succeed leads to her meeting President Ronald Reagan. This is a true story, An interview with the real main character after the movie shows her as a giggly American teenager...no longer the frightened waif who was forced into slave labor in her native Cambodia.