The Mighty is a 1998 comedy-drama film, based on the book Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick.
Kevin (Kieran Culkin) suffers from a rare, inhibiting disability, known as Mucopolysaccharidosis IV, or Morquio's syndrome. He is extremely intelligent and prone to flights of fancy. Max (Elden Henson) is an oversized boy suffering from a learning disability called dyslexia. He has flunked the seventh grade twice and is tormented by Blade, a teenage ga...
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The Mighty is a 1998 comedy-drama film, based on the book Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick.
Kevin (Kieran Culkin) suffers from a rare, inhibiting disability, known as Mucopolysaccharidosis IV, or Morquio's syndrome. He is extremely intelligent and prone to flights of fancy. Max (Elden Henson) is an oversized boy suffering from a learning disability called dyslexia. He has flunked the seventh grade twice and is tormented by Blade, a teenage gang leader. 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 and their fathers abandoning them. Kevin and Max go to the fireworks and get attacked by Blade and his gang. Kevin then witnesses that same gang of teens putting someone's purse in a sewer later. After Max and Kevin get the purse, they see it belongs to a lady named Lorretta Lee. Kevin and Max return the purse to Lorretta (Gillian Anderson) and see that she is married to Iggy Lee (Meat...
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