Director: Ami Canaan Mann
Audrey's Children is a 2025 American biographical drama directed by Ami Canaan Mann. Set in late-1960s Philadelphia, the film dramatizes the early hospital years of Dr. Audrey Evans, a pediatric oncologist whose work helped reshape how childhood cancer was treated and how families of sick children were supported.
What is Audrey's Children about?
The year is 1969. Dr. Audrey Evans takes up a senior post in the cancer division of a leading children's hospital, arriving at a moment when many childhood cancers carried grim odds and standardized treatment was still taking shape. She begins organizing how young patients are assessed and treated, arguing for clearer staging of disease and for combining therapies rather than relying on a single approach. The film traces her clinical decisions alongside the day-to-day realities of the wards, the families who wait through long hospital stays, and the colleagues who question her methods. A parallel thread follows her effort to create a place where out-of-town families can stay near their hospitalized children, an idea that grows into the first Ronald McDonald House. The story stays close to the working environment of the era, showing procedures, ward rounds, and institutional decision-making as the backdrop to Evans's persistence.
Cast & crew
Natalie Dormer leads the cast as Dr. Audrey Evans. Jimmi Simpson and Clancy Brown appear as fellow physicians and hospital figures, with Brandon Michael Hall, Ben Chase, Julianna Layne, Evelyn Giovine, and Rose Decker filling out the ensemble of colleagues, patients, and families around the central story.
Context & significance
The film is based on the life of Dr. Audrey Evans (1925 to 2022), a British-born physician who spent much of her career in the United States and is widely associated with advances in pediatric oncology, including a staging system for a common childhood tumor. The first Ronald McDonald House, depicted in the film, opened in Philadelphia in the mid-1970s. Directed by Ami Canaan Mann, the production runs about 110 minutes and is classified as biography and drama.
Where & how to watch
Audrey's Children is available to stream on K-Time with a free account login; the page you are reading is open without signing in. K-Time offers a Persian-focused experience for the Iranian diaspora, with a Farsi interface. This title includes a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so viewers can watch in the original English or in Farsi.