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Titolo originale: Love Leads the Way: A True Story
Regia: Delbert Mann |
Anno: 1984
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Dramma Storia Famiglia televisione film
Tag: blindness |
Cast: Timothy Bottoms | Ernest Borgnine | Susan Dey | Glynnis O'Connor | Richard Speight Jr. | Arthur Hill | Patricia Neal | Eva Marie Saint | Bill Ewin | Ralph Bellamy | George D. Wallace | Michael Anderson Jr. | Stephen Young |

Morris Frank è un ex pugile che, in seguito a un brutto incidente, è rimasto irreversibilmente cieco. Sebbene non sia più in grado di fare nemmeno le più piccole cose da solo, l’uomo non vuole rinunciare alla sua autonomia. Quando sembra aver perso tutte le speranze, però, viene a conoscenza di un nuovo progetto innovativo in Europa per i non vedenti: una sorta di scuola che addestra cani guida per accompagnare individui affetti da cecità. È così che Frank decide di provarci e ottiene un amico a quattro zampe che lo accompagni nella sua quotidianità e, soprattutto, durante i suoi allenamenti. Tuttavia scopre ben presto che l’animale non può entrare ovunque: niente trasporti o edifici pubblici, e tantomeno aziende. Furioso per queste regole ingiuste, l’uomo farà di tutto per far sentire la sua voce e difendere i suoi diritti. Riuscirà nell’impresa?

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While the film movingly explores Morris Frank's period of adjustment to blindness and his relationsh [...] D
One of the most affecting aspects of the story is the fact that Morrie is by no means a 'dog person, [...] D
Guide dogs originated In response to the many German soldiers who were were blinded or visually impa [...] D
As the film depicts, American culture was apprehensive about the idea of a guide dog accompanying pe [...] D
The film makes heartrending use of George and Ira Gershwin's "Someone to Watch Over Me" as a motif i [...] D
The sequence in which Morrie trains the neighbor boy, Jimmy, to serve as his seeing eye ends with th [...] D
Although the story is told soberly, there are several moments of patented Disney whimsy. For example [...] D
Buddy, the German Shepherd who became the first seeing-eye dog, passed away on Christmas Day in 1938 [...] D
Arguably the rarest film in the Disney canon because it was initially funded by the studio as a dire [...] D
Based on the efforts of The Seeing Eye organization, all fifty states have passed legislature that o [...] D
In real life, Morris Frank met his first seeing-eye dog in April 1928. The shepherd's name was Kiss, [...] D
Dorothy Eustis and Morris Frank established The Seeing Eye in Frank's hometown of Nashville. Due to [...] D
Because it was produced especially for video, the film was shot in Academy ratio (1.33:1), as televi [...] D
As the film depicts, The Seeing Eye began in Europe in the 1920s when Dorothy Harrison Eustis (playe [...] D
The first class of seeing-eye dogs was held in February 1929, and, after several successful graduate [...] D
Based on the true story of Morris Frank, who, in 1927, became the first blind person to be matched w [...] D
Original prints of the film are followed by a public service announcement from actor Ralph Bellamy, [...] D
The parts of the film taking place in Switzerland were filmed in Leavenworth, WA, chosen because it [...] D
The scene in which Buddy rescues Morrie from the burning car is not as far-fetched and 'Disneyfied' [...] D
Arguably, the most moving aspect of the film is the way it depicts the heartbreaking reality that, o [...] D

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