The Mighty with Sharon Stone: DVD Cover

    The Mighty Director: Peter Chelsom Cast: Sharon Stone, Elden Henson, Kieran Culkin, Gena Rowlands

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    • DVD Release Date: 07/13/1999
    • Original Release: 1998
    • Rating: Rated PG13
    • Sales Rank: 8,524

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    Features

    Closed Caption; Widescreen1.85:1 apsect ratio; Dolby Digital 5.1 audio; Production featurette; Sting music video; Chapter search

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    Scene Index

    Side #1 --
    1. Program Start/ Dinosaur Brain [5:32]
    2. New Neighbors [3:55]
    3. Reading King Arthur [7:16]
    4. "That's How it Started" [7:20]
    5. A Knight of the Realm [2:32]
    6. High Above the World [5:37]
    7. The Stolen Purse [5:06]
    8. "The Spitting Image" [4:30]
    9. Freak the Mighty [5:58]
    10. Falling Down to Earth [5:24]
    11. A New Body [6:44]
    12. "I'm Just Like Him!" [1:19]
    13. Down the Chinmney [10:50]
    14. Killer Kane [7:33]
    15. Christmas (A Week Later) [1:36]
    16. The Empty Book [7:28]
    17. What Loretta Said [3:58]
    18. Once and Future King [2:40]
    19. End Credits [4:53]

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    Editorial Reviews

    In the tradition of My Left Foot (1989), Peter Chelsom directed this emotional drama of outcasts, adapted from the Rodman Philbrick's popular young-adult novel Freak the Mighty. Although burly, slow-paced eight-grader Maxwell Kane (Elden Hensen), who narrates, is learning disabled, he nevertheless has a poetic soul, as evidenced when he meets the bright and brainy Kevin Dillon (Kieran Culkin), crippled by a birth defect. The physically deformed Kevin, who wears leg braces and uses crutches, suffers from Morquio's Syndrome, which causes physical growth to stop after the age of six. Illiterate Max gets Kevin as a reading tutor, and the two misfits soon become friends, sharing a vision of life as a contemporary Camelot. Gena Rowlands and Harry Dean Stanton appear as Max's grandparents and guardians. Max is portrayed by 19-year-old Emerson College filmmaking student Henson, while Sharon Stone has the role of Gwen Dillon, Kevin's mother. Boston-born author Philbrick, who winters in Key West, otherwise resides in Seacoast, New Hampshire (the setting of the book). The movie was filmed at a soundstage in Toronto, the University of Toronto, Cincinnati, and Covington, Kentucky. Exhibited out of competition at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide

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    December 12, 2007: Well I thought the book was better than the movie cause the book gives more details then the movie and the movie skips most of the good parts.

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    January 29, 2006: This is one of the best movies I have seen in a long time--I have not read the book so I cannot speak to it being true to it but as a movie is has everything--relationships, adventure, fun, drama, happiness, sadness--what more can you ask of a movie?? And you can let your kids watch it!!


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