Touched by Love

Oct 31, 1980

1h 35m

★ 4.6

A true story. A courageous story. A love story that will touch you forever.

Overview

A teenager with cerebral palsy attempts to become pen pals with her idol, Elvis Presley.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Rastar Productions

Columbia Pictures

Touched by Love Trailers

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Cast

Lena Canada

Deborah Raffin

Karen

Diane Lane

Dr. Bell

Michael Learned

Tony

John Amos

Amy

Cristina Raines

Margaret

Mary Wickes

Don Fielder

Clu Gulager

Monica

Twyla-Dawn Vokins

Topper - Child

Clive Shalom

No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age of 5, he demonstrates control of his left foot by using chalk to scrawl a word on the floor. With the help of his steely mother — and no shortage of grit and determination — Christy overcomes his infirmity to become a painter, poet and author.

6.7

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5.0

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7.6

Gigantic

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3.8

Elvis and the Beauty Queen

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Don Johnson stars as Elvis Presley in this made-for-TV true story about The King's love affair with Linda Thompson (Stephanie Zimbalist), a young beauty pageant contestant who was his live-in girlfriend and traveling companion for the last four years of his life. The story begins with their first meeting and traces their years together when Thompson tried to keep Presley off drugs in the last years of his career.

5.7

Finding Graceland

Sep 12, 1998

An eccentric drifter claiming to be Elvis Presley hitches a ride with a young man and they find themselves on an adventurous road trip to Memphis.

8.1

The Shop Around the Corner

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Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.

6.9

Margarita with a Straw

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A rebellious young woman with cerebral palsy leaves India to study in New York. On her journey of self-discovery, she unexpectedly falls in love.

7.6

Door to Door

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Sometimes the true heroes in our lives are those people who inspire us not with their superhuman accomplishments but simply by their refusal to give up in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds and the dignity in which they go about their lives. Bill Porter is one of those heroes. Born with cerebral palsy, he was told for many years that he was unemployable. But with the unwavering support of a dedicated mother and an indomitable spirit that has become his trademark, Porter did support himself as a door-to-door salesman in Portland, Oregon.

0.0

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0.0

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The shocking true tales of a Catholic school girl in Las Vegas.

7.8

Oasis

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A young man released from prison visits the widow of the man he killed drunk-driving and becomes infatuated with his cerebral palsy-stricken daughter.

4.4

Once in a Lifetime

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Mona Bergström is a sweet eurovision-obsessed woman in her 30s. She is married to a lazy husband and has four children, all named after her favorite Swedish Eurovision popstars. Her brother is a crossdressing guy self-titled "Candy Darling". Mona works in a retirement home for disabled people, where she is responsible for taking care of a young man named David who suffers a movement-restricting disease forcing him into a wheelchair. David's parents have abandoned him, as they wanted a normal child. Mona holds a big place in David's heart, and vica versa. David's goal is to get his parents to come and visit him, and he wants to show them that he is a great person, despite his handicap. Therefore he works with music on his computer, and his goal is to create a song, send it to "The Cardigans", a famous Swedish band and have them play the song and credit him, hoping his parents would spot it and want to visit him.

7.9

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A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.

6.0

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In 1970, a few days before Christmas, Elvis Presley showed up on the White House lawn seeking to be deputized into the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs by the President himself.

8.0

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María's routine at school is altered by the arrival of a very special child. Soon, they become close friends.

5.0

Intentando

Oct 24, 2021

No overview available.

7.0

Elvis Meets Nixon

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A "mockumentary" about Elvis's real-life trip to the White House to become a federal marshal under the DEA

5.0

Double Trouble

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