Yahoo Web Search

Sign In

Search results

    • Christopher Reeve

      • NEW YORK - What Christopher Reeve created as a mission statement now commemorates him. In The Brooke Ellison Story, Reeve set out to dramatize the real-life triumph over adversity of its subject who, at age 11, was struck by a car and paralyzed from the neck down, yet a few years later graduated with honors from Harvard University.
      www.chron.com/entertainment/article/Christopher-Reeve-tells-Brooke-Ellison-s-story-1973636.php

      Christopher Reeve tells Brooke Ellison's story

  2. People also ask

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Brooke_EllisonBrooke Ellison - Wikipedia

    The Brooke Ellison Story premiered in 2004, based on Ellison's 2002 memoir Miracles Happen: One Mother, One Daughter, One Journey. The television film was directed by fellow quadriplegic Christopher Reeve, the star of Superman. Ellison was portrayed by Vanessa Marano as a child and Lacey Chabert as a teenager.

  4. www.imdb.com › title › tt0407612The Brooke Ellison Story (TV Movie 2004) - IMDb

    Oct 25, 2004 · Rendered a quadriplegic since a child from a near-fatal neck injury, a young girl fights against all odds to succeed in life from grade school to her acceptance into college under the assistance of her loyal and dedicated mother. Director. Christopher Reeve. Writers.

    • (1.7K)
    • Biography, Drama
    • Christopher Reeve
    • 2004-10-25

  5. www.bookreporter.com › authors › brooke-ellisonInterview: May 10, 2002 | Bookreporter.com

    May 10, 2002 · Bookreporter.com's co-founders Carol Fitzgerald and Jesse Kornbluth (Harvard '68, magna cum laude) interviewed the Ellison's about Brooke's acceptance to Harvard, her future aspirations, and how her quadriplegia has given them a whole new appreciation of life, faith and family.

  6. Videos

    View all

  7. www.chron.com › entertainment › articleChristopher Reeve tells Brooke Ellison's story

    Oct 25, 2004 · In The Brooke Ellison Story, Reeve set out to dramatize the real-life triumph over adversity of its subject who, at age 11, was struck by a car and paralyzed from the neck down, yet a few years...

  8. www.nytimes.com › 2024/02/09 › healthBrooke Ellison, Prominent Disability Rights Advocate, Is Dead ...

    Feb 9, 2024 · Brooke Ellison, who after being paralyzed from the neck down by a childhood car accident went on to graduate from Harvard and became a professor and a devoted disability rights advocate, died...

  9. www.amazon.com › Brooke-Ellison-Story-DaughterThe Brooke Ellison Story: One Mother, One Daughter, One ...

    Oct 6, 2004 · The Brooke Ellison Story: One Mother, One Daughter, One Journey. Paperback – October 6, 2004. by Brooke Ellison (Author), Jean Ellison (Author) 15. See all formats and editions. On her first day of seventh grade, a car struck Brooke Ellison on her way home from school.

    • Brooke Ellison, Jean Ellison

  10. www.nytimes.com › 2004/10/24 › nyregionTELEVISION; A Portrait of Courage - The New York Times

    Oct 24, 2004 · Based in part on an autobiography written by Ms. Ellison and her mother, Jean, the movie tells the story of the determination and family support that propelled the young Brooke from a...