One of my all time favorites.

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It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

After finishing 'America The Beautiful' just a few days ago I noticed that 'Gifted Hands' was on BET as I was scrolling my cable TV provider's station guide. The film began about 20 minutes before I selected it.There were several times I had seen Dr. Carson on TV and was very impressed. After reading 'America The Beautiful' I felt we had the wrong black president in office.Now, to the film: Cuba Gooding, Jr. is a brilliant actor who resembles Dr. Carson and plays the role in an outstanding manner. He speaks softly and calmly, like Dr. Carson. His voice tone is very similar to Dr. Carson's, but is different in other Gooding films. That's why he's a great actor.The supporting cast was brilliant, the story-line concise; the film went by too quickly, which, to me means it was very good.I will check the book 'Gifted Hands' out of the library because I am sure to gain more insight into Dr. Carson's life. I read his bio on Wikipedia, for example, and it doesn't mention his wife's duo still-birth. I'm sure I'll learn more by reading his other books.I cannot reasonably find anything socially or politically, Dr. Carson has to say that I disagree with - in fact, like him, I am an independent who strongly advises anyone to see this film and read his books, regardless of whether you agree with his philosophy of life.

This movie is about a young boy who lived with his single mother and his older brother. The movie begins in 1987, where Dr. Ben Carson goes to Germany to visit a couple who have conjoined twins. They are joined at the head and he is asked to separate the twins with out one of them dying. The movie then goes back to his childhood and shows the struggles he had as a child with his temper and having an uneducated mother. His mother spent time in a mental institution. Dr. Carson was willing to taking risk and at one point removed half of a patient's brain to stop them from having seizures.I would recommend this movie to people to see how to over some disadvantages and how having a mother who believes in you can help you go far in life.

This movie is about a young boy who lived with his mother and his older brother. The movie begins in 1987, where Dr. Ben Carson goes to Germany to visit a couple named Peter and Augusta Rausch, who have twins conjoined at the head. He knows that chances of saving them both will be a risk, because one baby always dies in situations like that. Ben agrees to do the operation, but he will wait four months so he can come up with a plan to save them both. While looking into some of his books, the movie flashes back to the year 1961, where 11 year old Ben Carson starts out life as an African American child from a one parents home with only a mother, with failing grades at school. Ben has an older brother named Curtis. Ben's mother starts making all the decisions for him, even though she can't even read because she dropped out of school herself, but she doesn't want the same for her boys. Their mother went to a mental institution to check herself out and she made them promise her that they would learn their multiplication table. When she sees her two sons' success hindered by TV, she schedules times that they are allowed to watch TV and when they aren't. , boys show great interest in watching only a quiz show later on and commands them to read two books per week from the library and give her a book report, she also moves them to better schools. This was a really great movie to watch because part of the movie focused on racism. Ben Carson went through being called names and not getting to get into college or getting a job because he was black. The kids and even the principle at school made fun of him because he was black, even though he was a very smart kid. This is definitely an inspirational movie, and I think many people should have the chance to watch it.

When you look over the roles that Cuba Gooding Jr. has had over the years, seeing the diversity in the characters, you realize what a gifted actor he is. He shows it clearly in this role, as Ben Carson, gifted surgeon from very humble beginnings.The movie opens with a difficult case where Dr Carson is contemplating the separation of German conjoined twins, sharing a cranium and parts of their brains. His big hurdle is figuring out a way to keep them from bleeding to death during the surgery. From that we are treated to a long flashback of his life from a young student, through his teen years, and medical school.Ben Carson was not a "natural." He had developed spotty study habits and was distracted by hours of TV after school. As a result he was borderline failing in all his classes. But the awakening came when his mother insisted that he and his brother spend less time watching TV and more time reading books from the library.Ben Carson became a success from his mother's motivation, and from his own motivation to became a doctor. As the movie draws to its conclusion we are again taken to the beginning, the difficult case of the conjoined twins. He pioneered a procedure which proved to be successful.A bonus in the DVD extras include the real Ben Carson, who today is not that much older than the actor who plays him in this movie.