The Mighty (1998)
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Reviews Counted: 40
Fresh: 30 | Rotten: 10
Heavy-handed and overwrought.
Average Rating: 7.1/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 2
Heavy-handed and overwrought.
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User Ratings: 8,101
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In the tradition of My Left Foot (1989), Peter Chelsom directed this emotional drama of outcasts, adapted from the Rodman Philbrick's popular young-adult novel Freak the Mighty. Although burly, slow-paced eight-grader Maxwell Kane (Elden Hensen), who narrates, is learning disabled, he nevertheless has a poetic soul, as evidenced when he meets the bright and brainy Kevin Dillon (Kieran Culkin), crippled by a birth defect. The physically deformed Kevin, who wears leg braces and uses crutches,
Oct 9, 1998 Wide
Oct 2, 2001
Miramax
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Cast
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Sharon Stone
Gwen Dillon -
Elden Henson
Maxwell Kane -
Kieran Culkin
Kevin Dillon -
Gena Rowlands
Gram -
Harry Dean Stanton
Grim -
Gillian Anderson
Loretta Lee -
James Gandolfini
Kenny Kane -
Joe Perrino
Blade -
Meat Loaf
Iggy -
Jenifer Lewis
Mrs. Addison
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All Critics (61) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (30) | Rotten (10) | DVD (4)
Good movie about friendship for middle schoolers.
Touching and ultimately rewarding..Culkin shines
...A cheesy, overdramatic tear-jerker full of transparent sentimentality and forced emotion.
Decently acted but only moderately inspiring.
Audience Reviews for The Mighty
Super Reviewer
a good movie though but it's not really great. B
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