Television film adaptation of the true story ("A Friend Like Henry" by Nuala Gardner) of a young autistic boy and his extraordinary friendship with his dog, Thomas.
The dog does not die during the movie, but the movie is based on a real boy and dog and it's said at the end that the dog passed away with Kyle holding him in real life.
I'm going to say yes just to be safe, it was unclear but the mother thought she was pregnant and then around christmas was extremely sad so i believe so.
There is a classroom of autistic children, i am sure not all of them were actually autistic children especially as one of them was Asa Butterfield. So technically yes.