Meanwhile, Ben harbors an irascible temper which climaxes when he physically threatens Sonya and nearly stabs one of his former bullies.
They soon prove to be toxic, giving Ben a knife. Following Ben's middle school graduation ceremony where his teacher angrily tells Ben's white peers they should be ashamed for performing worse than the black, less privileged Ben, Sonya has Ben enrolled in a primarily black high school.Īt the new school, Ben is repeatedly bullied by two students, but makes peace after outwitting them in a "yo mama" joke battle. Within one year, Ben goes from the bottom of his class to the top. She hides from Ben and Curtis the fact that she is illiterate and thus cannot read their book reports.īen and Curtis begin to learn much from the world of books. When she returns, she determines that her sons are watching too much television, so she restricts them to no more than two shows per week, requiring them to read books and write reports on them. His single mother, Sonya, who has but a third grade education, is distressed about both her sons’ academic failures and decides to do something about it.įirst, she requires Ben and his older brother Curtis to learn the multiplication tables, and unbeknownst to them, checks into a mental institution to battle depression. After explaining the risk, and despite that fact, Ben agrees to operate.ĭuring the four months, he spends researching and formulating a plan to increase his chances of a successful surgery, the film shifts back to 1961 in Detroit, Michigan, to a time when 11-year-old Ben Carson is doing poorly in school. Carson believes he might be able to successfully separate them, but realizes that he also risks losing one or both of them. Ben Carson travels to Ulm, Germany to meet a couple, Peter and Augusta Rausch, who have twins conjoined at the back of their heads. The film additionally received a Critics' Choice Television Award nomination for Best Movie/Miniseries and four Creative Arts Emmy Award nominations.
Carter was nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Television Film. was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie.
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A Johnson & Johnson Spotlight Presentation, the movie premiered on TNT on Saturday, February 7, 2009. The film is based on the autobiography of neurosurgeon (and later politician) Ben Carson, which was co-written by Cecil Murphey and published under the same title in 1990. Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story is a 2009 biographical television drama film directed and co-produced by Thomas Carter, written by John Pielmeier, and starring Cuba Gooding Jr., Kimberly Elise and Aunjanue Ellis.
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