Based on the true story of Brad Cohen, the movie tells the inspiring story of Brad Cohen, who suffers from Tourette’s, overcoming obstacles and eventually becoming a great teacher.
The movie’s protagonist, Brad Cohen, has suffered from Tourette’s since he was a child, a disease that causes him to have uncontrollable seizures and make strange noises, and for which there is no cure.
Instead of being defeated by the disease like other sufferers, Brad Cohen keeps trying and challenging himself, never giving up on his dreams even in the face of repeated failures and setbacks.
In the face of an untreatable disease, he faced life positively, did not let the disease affect his life, coexisted peacefully with the disease, overcame many difficulties, and finally realized his dream of becoming an elementary school teacher.
2008 / USA / Drama Biography / Peter Wiener / James Walker Trent Williams
Plot Synopsis:
BoBo (James WolkJames Wolk) is born with Tourette’s, a severe spastic disorder that causes him to uncontrollably twist his neck and make strange noises.
This bizarre behavior has caused him to grow up not being understood by those around him. His teachers often criticize him at school, his classmates sneer at him, and even his father is disappointed in him.
Only his mother has always been his solid arm, her perseverance and encouragement, so that he can be in a normal person’s life hard to move forward.
Yet faced with a world that can’t understand him, BoBo has always struggled in a vortex of pain.
Until in a school assembly, the principal of the school in front of everyone cleverly let everyone understand the real situation of BoBo, so that he has a caring teacher’s dream of firm, even though the disease makes BoBo in the pursuit of the teacher’s dream of the road to be suspected by many people, repeatedly frustrated, but he has always insisted on his dream, in order to find a willing to accept their own school, do not abandon the dream, do not give up faith, quietly work hard, and do not give up the dream, do not give up the faith. He has never given up on his dream and has worked hard to find a school that will accept him.
And his once tortuous life path slowly begins to improve under his persistence…The movie is based on Brad Cole’s…
