Biography of Ben Carson who grew up to be Dr. Ben Carson, a world famous neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins.Biography of Ben Carson who grew up to be Dr. Ben Carson, a world famous neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins.Biography of Ben Carson who grew up to be Dr. Ben Carson, a world famous neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins.
- Nominated for 4 Primetime Emmys
- 8 wins & 16 nominations total
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor
- Candy
- (as Aunjanue Ellis)
Gregory Dockery
- Teen Curtis Carson
- (as Gregory Dockery II)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaThe real Ben Carson can be seen briefly as an extra walking down the hallway reading a chart and wearing the same blue scrubs as Cuba Gooding Jr..
- GoofsA scene in Dr. Carson's Baltimore home showed liquor bottles, he is a Seventh Day Adventist and they do not drink alcohol.
- Quotes
Sonya Carson: I didn't say they weren't expensive clothes. I said they're cheap. Most folks that wear cheap clothes on the outside are dead on the inside. The folks I work for, they buy clothes that last. That's what I try to get you.
Featured review
Dignified and understated and thus deeply inspirational
The Ben Carson Story never set out to a major film: this is obviously a film that appealed to Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr and he plays it very straight, and underacts, without underplaying.
As I am deeply fascinated by all things neurological this was a really easy film for me to get into - but even if you have no real interest, the human side of this will really sideswipe you.
It is incredibly and really frustratingly slow in places, but bear with me - the surgeries are amazing and very moving.
Overall I'm giving this a 9, not for the production writing filming or direction which are at best 6 or 7 at most, but because films like this deserve to be made, should be made, and should be what we want to be made...
Good, Moving, and Inspirational...
As I am deeply fascinated by all things neurological this was a really easy film for me to get into - but even if you have no real interest, the human side of this will really sideswipe you.
It is incredibly and really frustratingly slow in places, but bear with me - the surgeries are amazing and very moving.
Overall I'm giving this a 9, not for the production writing filming or direction which are at best 6 or 7 at most, but because films like this deserve to be made, should be made, and should be what we want to be made...
Good, Moving, and Inspirational...
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- Aug 27, 2009
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By what name was Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (2009) officially released in Canada in English?
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