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Miracle Run

Francaise title: Le défi d’une mère
Spain title: Un viaje inesperado
Greek title: Απροσδόκητο Ταξίδι
Russian title: Неожиданное путешествие
Original title: Miracle Run

Alternative titles:
The Unexpected Journey / Aprosdokito taxidi / Απροσδοκητο Ταξιδι

Drama – USA
Production year: 2004
Movie length: 87 minutes

Director: Gregg Champion

Movie description:

Single mom Corrine discovers that her seven-year-old twins are autistic. She refuses to give up on their potential, even though it seems that the rest of the world has turned its back on them. Thanks to this incredible mother’s support, her boys accomplish the unimaginable.

The social stigma and discrimination of autistic children is present in the movie »Miracle RunÂ«. The life of Corrine Morgan-Thomas, the mother of autistic twins Steven and Philip, changes drastically when she finally finds out that her sons are autistic. The first few doctors she takes her sons to are unable to diagnose them with any problem, saying that they are just fine; fortunately, Corrine takes her sons to a specialist who diagnoses the boys with Autism. Corrine’s initial reaction is that of shock. She does not like the idea that her sons are autistic, and leaves the hospital angrily. She does, how-ever, end up realizing that the specialist was correct. When she tells her husband about their autism, he says he doesn’t want to deal with the autism, so she decides to leave him. She is determined to fight the social stigma of autism and to have her sons be treated like any other child, so she does not tell Steven and Philip’s new school about their problem. The school accuses her of abusing her children, but then tells her that she ought to find another school for the boys when Corrine tells them about her twins’ autism. In the end her boys set their hearts to succeed and do succeed, proving that autistic children can do anything that any other child could do!

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