Baxter!

Roger Baxter is a boy of about twelve. His parents are divorced. Neither of them takes much interest in him. The boy is passed from one house to the other. In the end he comes to London to live with his mother. She barely notices that he is there. Roger has a difficulty with his speech. He cannot pronounce his Rs. Because of it he pulls back from people. At school he is sent to a speech therapist. Doctor Roberta takes a close interest in him. The boy also becomes friends with a French cook. The man is called Roger as well. The two grow attached like brothers. Roger works on his speech. The real trouble is the emptiness at home. Patricia Neal and Jean-Pierre Cassel appear in the one hundred four minute film, a British and American production Lionel Jeffries finished in 1973.