Miracle Run
Director: Gregg Champion
Genre: Drama
Year: 2003
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Alicia Morton, Mary-Louise Parker, Aidan Quinn, Zac Efron, Bubba Lewis
Miracle Run is a 2004 Lifetime Television film starring Mary-Louise Parker, Zac Efron, Bubba Lewis, and Aidan Quinn.
In a flashback, a single mother, Corrine Morgan-Thomas (Mary-Louise Parker) drives her seven year old twin boys Stephen (Jake Cherry) and Philip (Jeremy Shada) to the doctor's office and learns that they have autism. Philip simply repeats what he hears others say, while Stephen is completely nonverbal. After leaving the clinic in a very upset mood, she takes the boys shopping for groceries. Her visit to the supermarket is not a pleasant one, as her two boys begin screaming throughout the store and Philip wets himself, causing others to stare at them. Upon learning about their condition, her live-in boyfriend leaves because he knows raising twins with a mental disability will be difficult.
Corrine then moves with her boys to another town and enrolls them in a public school. Their classmates are puzzled by their strange behavior, as well as their teachers. Corrine is then told at a meeting by the principal as well as several psychiatrists that they are not fit for public school, and that they will be sent to a special school. The local mental hospital then sends a
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