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Two decades earlier, the parents of twelve-year-old Jeffrey Lionel Magee (Michael Angarano) are killed by a drunk driver. To avoid being put in an orphanage, Jeffrey runs out of town and across the country, developing supernatural-like qualities to run at a very fast speed.
Maniac Magee: Directed by Bob Clark. With Michael Angarano, Melissa Bickerton, Orlando Brown, Caylen Clark. An extraordinary orphan boy changes the lives of a variety of people as he searches for a home.
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- Action, Fantasy, Adventure
- Bob Clark
Maniac Magee. 2003. 1 hr 30 mins. Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Kids. NR. Watchlist. Sweet adaptation of Jerry Spinelli's novel about an orphaned white boy (Michael Angarano) whose friendship...
Maniac Magee is a novel written by American author Jerry Spinelli and published in 1990. Exploring themes of racism and inequality, it follows the story of an orphan boy looking for a home in the fictional town of Two Mills. Two Mills is harshly segregated between the East and West, blacks and whites. He becomes a local legend for feats of ...
- Jerry Spinelli
- 1990
- Plot
- Cast
- Differences from The Book
- Trivia
Two decades earlier, the parents of twelve-year-old Jeffrey Lionel Magee (Michael Angarano) are killed by a drunk driver just after his father told him that he would show him his infamous "stopball." After his parents' funeral, a police officer and a woman named Dottie Freeze (Melissa Bickerton) who runs an orphanage approaches Jeffrey and tells hi...
Michael Angaranoas Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac Magee" MageeOrlando Brownas Mars Bar ThompsonSome of the book is cut including when Mars Bar has a conversation with ManiacIn the book, it ends with Amanda retrieving Jeffrey and telling him to be a permanent resident of the Beale family. There's no time skip to two decades later, as the novel took place in the present.In the book, Earl Grayson is a big part and character. In the movie, there is no part or appearance of Grayson.In the book, Jeffrey's aunt and uncle do not appear in the movie despite being a big reason for Jeffery to run away in the book.The movie was originally intended to be released in 2002 but was pushed back a year. Despite the scheduled 2002/2003 release, the end credits revealed that the film was made in 2001.
The story follows twelve-year-old Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee, an orphaned runaway with many extraordinary and athletic talents, who arrives in a town divided with racial conflict. The film was broadcast on Nickelodeon on February 23, 2003.
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An extraordinary orphan boy changes the lives of a variety of people as he searches for a home. Jeffrey "Maniac" Magee was orphaned as a baby, but nothing gets him down. He comes to a small town which, although divided by racism, is populated by colorful/comical characters.