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Repeatedly, Ben has to overcome prejudice to be able to let the gifts God has given him blossom. The people who made this movie are to be commended for so clearly showing that God has the cure for both self-doubt and prejudice. Only a tiny portion of our readers give. Thank you. Home Reviews Movies. Rent or Buy:. Young Ben Carson didn't have much of a chance.

Growing up in a broken home amongst poverty and prejudice, his grades suffered and his temper flared. And yet, his mother never lost her faith in him. Insisting he follow the opportunities she never had, she helped to grow his imagination, intelligence and, most importantly, his belief in himself.

That faith would be his gift - the thing that would drive him to follow his dream of becoming one of the world's leading neurosurgeons. Movie Soulmates' ratings Register so you can access movie recommendations tailored to your movie taste.

The surgical procedures are showcased in all of their bloody glory, but not so much as to cross the line into gratuitousness. Early on, we see Carson as a kid wracked with self-doubt and confusion in a household with a mother whose education stalled in third grade and a father who chose narcotics over the family. We see that her own brain, however, turned on her, resulting in bouts of clinical depression she struggled to control.

Carson wins. God is great. Meanwhile, his tireless mother is plagued by depression, and — unbeknownst to her sons — spends a stretch of time in a psychiatric facility.

His academic successes are tainted by the shadow of racism when Carson wins a spelling bee, a teacher tells the other students that they should be ashamed for allowing a fatherless black boy to outperform them. And like any young black American male who physically assaults someone in public, Carson is able to pray himself out of trouble.

With the power of a single cut, young Bennie is absolved of his crime, transubstantiated into the body of Oscar-winning actor Cuba Gooding, Jr. Over the course of a thrilling montage involving staring at books in several different college libraries, Carson discovers that he has an affinity for brains. Fuck books. Books are for heathens. His interview with the admissions director of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine is a scene for the ages.