When Cindy tries to claim the pup there on Christmas Eve, she’s devastated to find him gone. Not only are some of Cindy’s fellow residents allergic, but Cindy’s caretakers don’t think she can take care of Smudge, and they turn him over to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. She appeared in ABC’s “Life Goes On,” recently had a touching guest spot on NBC’s “ER” and here turns in a moving performance as a resident of a group home who is heartbroken when she’s not allowed to keep the little dog she names Smudge. The gentle, nicely shot film, directed and written by Hilary Jones-Farrow and based on Nan Gregory’s children’s book “How Smudge Came,” is not just about a young woman with Down syndrome, it also stars a young woman with Down syndrome.Īndrea Friedman, who plays Cindy, is no acting novice. “Smudge,” TNT’s poignant drama about Cindy, a young woman with Down syndrome who rescues an abandoned puppy, is a tribute in more ways than one to hope and possibility.
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