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Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
MEANRANK
80/100
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Letterboxd on 65, highest is Google on 94.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A young boy from a struggling single-parent home in Detroit faces poverty and low expectations. With the encouragement of his mother, he overcomes a violent temper and poor grades to excel academically. His journey leads him to become a pioneering neurosurgeon, facing and overcoming racial and professional prejudices to eventually lead a groundbreaking surgical procedure to separate conjoined twins.
Details
- Director
- Thomas Carter
- Writer
- John Pielmeier
- Based on
- Gifted Hands by Ben Carson
- Studio
- Johnson & Johnson Spotlight Presentations, Magna Global Entertainment, Sony Pictures Television, The Hatchery
- Released
- 7 February 2009
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Rated
- NR
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Cast
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Awards
Nominated for 4 Primetime Emmys. 8 wins & 16 nominations total
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