The Mighty

Peter Chelsom directed this family film in the tradition of My Left Foot (1989). Charles Leavitt scripted this adaptation of the young-adult novel Freak the Mighty (Blue Sky/Scholastic, 1993) by 45-year-old Rodman Philbrick. Big and burly eighth-grader Max Kane is learning disabled, but after he meets the brilliant and brainy Kevin (Kieran Culkin), crippled by a birth defect, the two realize they can become an unbeatable team. Kevin, who wears leg braces and uses crutches, suffers from Morquio’s Syndrome, which causes physical growth to stop after the age of six. Max is portrayed by 19-year-old Emerson College filmmaking student Elden Hanson, while Sharon Stone plays Kevin’s mother., Coming-of-age drama about two students, one with learning difficulties and the other with a severe physical disability, who become close friends after one boy is appointed reading tutor for the other. Together they enter a fantasy world of Arthurian knights and brave quests, while in the real world they gradually build up each other’s sense of self-worth and confidence as their friendship grows., Peter Chelsom’s film stars Elden Hensen as a burly eighth grader with learning difficulties, the butt of everyone’s jokes, who becomes friends with brainy Kieran Culkin, who suffers from a deforming disease that is destined to claim his life. Together, the two make one boy and share common cause in a film that avoids any mawkishness thanks to the strength of the two leads and a support cast including Gena Rowlands, Harry Dean Stanton and Sharon Stone., Two adolescents, one a slow-witted giant, the other suffering from a deadly degenerative disease, become friends, engage in Arthurian flights of fancy and thwart neighbourhood bullies., A moving coming-of-age tale about two mismatched teens—one (Elden Henson) a slow-witted giant, the other (Kieran Culkin) a bright boy with a degenerative disease. The smaller boy tutors his large friend, who in turn protects the little guy. Sharon Stone, Gena Rowlands, Harry Dean Stanton, Gillian Anderson, James Gandolfini., Heart-warming drama about two young boys who forge a friendship based on their mutual love of adventure stories. Max has learning problems and is barely literate, while Kevin is physically deformed. The pair meet when Kevin is instructed to be Max’s reading helper – and thus begins a tale of knights, heroes and adventure.