The Miracle Continues

Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
Genre Drama
Based on Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy by Joseph P. Lash
Written by John McGreevey
Directed by Alan Gibson
Starring Blythe Danner
Mare Winningham
Perry King
Vera Miles
Music by J. A. C. Redford
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
Production
Executive producer(s) David Lawrence
Cinematography Frank Watts
Editor(s) John Farrell
Running time 100 minutes
Production company(s) 20th Century Fox Television
Castle Combe
Distributor Operation Prime Time
Release
Original network Syndication
Original release April 23, 1984

Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues is a 1984 made-for-television biographical film and a semi-sequel to the 1979 television version of The Miracle Worker. It is a drama based on the life of Helen Keller and premiered in syndication on April 23, 1984 as part of Operation Prime Time syndicated programming.

Summary

The film covers the period of Keller's life from her college years at Radcliffe through her writing of The Story of My Life assisted by John Macy, who falls in love with and marries Keller's teacher and companion, Anne Sullivan. Helen wants to live a full life but is hampered by her actual disabilities and by people's attitudes and beliefs about the disabled at that time. Sullivan is hampered by psychological problems from her own past, as well as by her symbiotic, almost codependent bond with Helen, which affects Macy to the extent that he eventually self-destructs into alcoholism. Keller and Sullivan raise money by going on the road with a lecture tour where they describe her education.

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