The Brooke Ellison Story

Drama based on real-life events about a young woman who, although paralysed by a car accident as a child, continues to live a full life with the help of her family and succeeds in gaining a university degree., Inspirational true story of a girl paralyzed in an accident, and her dedicated mother. Through determination, Brooke fights back against the limitations of her disability to earn acceptance into Harvard University. Based on the book “Miracles Happen: One Mother, One Daughter, One Journey” by Brooke Ellison and Jean Ellison., Christopher Reeve directed this inspiring made-for-television drama based on a true story, which turned out to be his final project before his passing in 2004. When she was 11 years old, Brooke Ellison was involved in an auto accident that caused her extensive head trauma and serious injuries to her spinal cord. Doctors were uncertain if Brooke would survive, and while she pulled through, the young girl was confined to a wheelchair for the rest of her life. However, Brooke was determined to live as close to a “normal” life as was possible, and to excel despite her condition. With the unflagging support of her mother, who attended classes with her every day, Brooke not only received top marks in high school, but graduated from Harvard with honors. The Brooke Ellison Story stars Vanessa Marano as young Brooke, Lacey Chabert as Brooke in her teen and young-adult years, and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as her mother, Jean., Rendered a quadriplegic since a child from a near-fatal neck injury, a young girl fights against all odds to succeed in life from grade school to her acceptance into college under the assistance of her loyal and dedicated mother., An 11-year-old paraplegic succeeds in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.