i read a story once that was kind of like this but set in like the 60's or 70's i think & this man was mentally challenged like Molly and had a surgery and became extremely smart. Then it reversed itself and he eventually died but i feel like it's the same story as this movie
shareFlowers for Algernon is a very famous novel (and one of my favorites) of a mentally retarted man who is given an experimental operation and turns into a genius. They made a not-so-great-movie out of it called "Charly". Although I've only seen a trailer of Molly and read the plot description, it is obviously an extremely blantant rip-off and it angers me to go to the IMDb page and see that the novel isn't even credited.
shareWikipedia (go figure) credits the movie to Flowers for Algernon.
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Even though the movie was a total ripoff of the movie Charly with Cliff Robertson, I still liked it and I think Elisabeth Shue did a great job.
shareEven though the movie was a total ripoff of the movie Charly with Cliff Robertson, I still liked it and I think Elisabeth Shue did a great job.
yes i agree....i read that a year ago in year 10.
I thought it was a beautiful story until it started going downhill.....but i also agree that this is a total rip off
Yes I agree.. but flowers for algernon was better...
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The whole story's been done numerous times like in "Awakenings" and even "At First Sight" where Val Kilmer plays a blind man who gets an operation done allowing him to see for the first time. But like the rest of these movies, eventually the procedure begins to fail and starts losing his sight again (that was also a true story).
shareThat story line (blind, given sight, only to lose it again) was done to perfection as one of the 3 storylines of the original Pilot episode of "Rod Serling's Night Gallery" with Joan Crawford directed by a young Steven Spielberg (1970).
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Except I wouldn’t want to see Cliff Robertson (or Frederick “Shemp” Forrest in Larry (http://pro.imdb.com/title/tt0071740/), a similarly themed TV movie) naked.
But seriously folks... it was a nice spin on the formula, particularly with the brother sister angle.
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It is. That's why this movie was a bummer. I would have liked to see her remain as she was.
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