Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story is a 2009 movie directed by Thomas Carter, starring Cuba Gooding Jr. and Kimberly Elise. It is a movie based on the life story of world-renowned neurosurgeon Ben Carson from 1961 to 1987. A Johnson and Johnson Spotlight Presentation, the movie aired on TNT on Saturday, February 7, 2009. Its title was re-used from a 1992 direct-to-video documentary about Ben Carson released by Zondervan, though they are not the s...
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Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story is a 2009 movie directed by Thomas Carter, starring Cuba Gooding Jr. and Kimberly Elise. It is a movie based on the life story of world-renowned neurosurgeon Ben Carson from 1961 to 1987. A Johnson and Johnson Spotlight Presentation, the movie aired on TNT on Saturday, February 7, 2009. Its title was re-used from a 1992 direct-to-video documentary about Ben Carson released by Zondervan, though they are not the same films.
Ben Carson (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) starts out life with everything against him: an African American child from a one-parent home with failing grades at school, snacking in front of the television, and in need of glasses. But his mother, who dropped out in the third grade, starts making decisions for him. When her boys need to learn the multiplication (times) tables, she has them swear to learn them while she is gone to check herself into a mental institution. When she sees a successful them obscured by TV, she turns off the boys' TV and...
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