The Mighty
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.
| MPAA Rating: | PG-13 |
| Genre: | Comedy, Drama |
| Country: | United States |
| Produced By: | Jane Startz, Julie Goldstein, Harvey Weinstein, Simon Fields, Jason Clark, Don Carmody, Deborah Forte, Bob Weinstein |
| Directed By: | Peter Chelsom |
| Written By: | Rodman Philbrick, Charles Leavitt |
| Cast: | Eve Crawford, Jenny Wallace, Telmo Miranda, Bryon Bully, Joe Perrino, Jenifer Lewis, Douglas Bisset, Daniel Lee, Ann Chiu, Gillian Anderson, Serena Pruyn, Carl Marotte, Harry Dean Stanton, Rudy Webb, Dov Tiefenbach, Ron Nigrini, Jordan Hughes, Elden Henson, Kieran Culkin, Michael Colton, James Gandolfini, Sharon Stone, Nadia Litz, Sophie Bennett, Lisa Mininni, John Bourgeois, Meat Loaf, Bruce Tubbe, Nora Sheehan, Gena Rowlands |
| In Theaters: | Oct 30, 1998 |
| Runtime: | 1 hour 40 minutes |
| Production: | Chaos Productions, Jane Startz Productions, Miramax, Scholastic Productions |
| Box Office: | $2,652,246 |
| Available On: | Amazon, Itunes, Vudu |
| Read More On: | Wikipedia |
