Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

Gifted Hands The Ben Carson Story is a 2009 television drama film directed by Thomas Carter, starring Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Kimberly Elise. It could be a movie based on the life story of neurosurgeon Ben Carson from 1961 to 1987. A Johnson amp Johnson Spotlight Presentation, the movie may have premiered on TNT on Saturday, February 7, 2009. Its title was reused from a 1992 directtovideo documentary about Ben Carson released by Zondervan.

During the four months he spends researching and formulating a plan to increase his chances of a successful surgery, the movie flashes back to 1961, when the 11yearold Ben Carson Jaishon Fisher is failing school. His single mother, who had but a third grade education, is distressed about her sons academic failures and decides to do something about it. First she requires Ben and his older brother and his best friend, Curtis, to learn the multiplication tables while she was away and, unbeknown to them, checks into a mental institution to battle depression. When she returns, she realizes that her sons are watching too much TV and decides to restrict them toshows a week and require them to read two books a week and write book reports, which frustrates the boys but they soon become hooked on a television quiz show. She hides from them the fact that she does not know how to read the reports.Ben and Curtis soon begin to love reading and learn many things from the world of books, so that within one year Ben goes from the bottom of his class to the top. But Ben has an uncontrollable temper which climaxed in high school when he nearly killed Curtis. Fortunately for his friend and for Ben, his knife hits his friends belt buckle and breaks. Shocked, Ben runs home and cries out to God to take away his temper. This experience changes his life. ........

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