The Mighty
The Mighty is a 1998 American coming of age buddy comedy-drama film directed by Peter Chelsom and written by Charles Leavitt. Based on the book Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick, the film stars Sharon Stone, Gena Rowlands, Gillian Anderson, Harry Dean Stanton, Kieran Culkin, James Gandolfini and Elden Henson.
Plot
Kevin "Freak" Dillon is a 12-year-old boy suffering from Morquio syndrome and living with his mother Gwen "Fair Gwen" Dillon. He is extremely intelligent and is obsessed with flights of fancy, but due to his disability, he walks with leg braces and crutches. Meanwhile, Maxwell "Max" Kane is a 14-year-old beastly yet good-natured boy with learning challenges and living with his maternal grandparents Susan "Gram" and Elton "Grim" Pinneman. He has flunked the seventh grade twice and is tormented by Tony "Blade" Fowler, a teenage delinquent who is the leader of a teenage bully gang named the "Doghouse Boys". When Kevin is assigned as Max's reading tutor, they form a bond of friendship over the similar circumstances they share, such as both being outcasts in their school and their fathers abandoning them.
More details
| author | Charles Leavitt |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Ohio |
| director | Peter Chelsom |
| editor | Martin Walsh |
| genre | comedy-drama |
| keywords | attack bus stop christmas dinner christmas eve christmas gift gang leader kidnap kill king arthur learn leg brace load locked in married morning morquio syndrome move nothing obsess old friends read repressed memory rid suffer sulfuric acid tie up wait |
| musicBy | Trevor Jones |
| producer | Don Carmody Simon Fields |
| productionCompany | Scholastic Corporation |
| publisher | Miramax Films |
| theme | death independent |