Help me identify this film - child paralysis — Practical take — How to ship it

kernel_kate

I'm in search of a film a saw when I was a kid. From what I remember the film may be about a child who is paralyzed. I have in mind a scene where the parents(or doctors), in their despair are saying to the child (more times) something like this: Tell your brain to tell your body to tell your hand to move its finger. And the child moves one of his fingers and everybody is excited and happy because this was like a very big step towards his...

Originally asked by Andrei on Stack Exchange (movies) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

I think it might be Lorenzo's Oil (1992) ? A boy develops a disease so rare that nobody is working on a cure, so his father decides to learn all about it and tackle the problem himself. The part you mention was probably the very end of the movie.

Full answer by user28131: https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/43972 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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