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    1985 · Docudrama · 1h 40m

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  1. Release. March 19, 1985. ( 1985-03-19) First Steps is a 1985 American made-for-television biographical drama film directed by Rod Browning and starring Amy Steel, Judd Hirsch and Kim Darby. The film is based on a series of segments from 60 Minutes. [1]

    • Rod Browning
    • CBS
  2. Mar 19, 1985 · First Steps: Directed by Sheldon Larry. With Amy Steel, Judd Hirsch, Kim Darby, Darlene Dotto. Teenage Nan Davis is left paralyzed in a car accident and has a tough time accepting her new wheelchair-bound life.

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    • Biography, Drama
    • Sheldon Larry
    • 1985-03-19
  3. March 17, 1985 at 12:00 a.m. EST. Amy Steel was all set to play Nan Davis. She'd done as much homework as she could in nine days -- she'd worked out to increase her upper body strength and she'd ...

  4. Synopsis by Hal Erickson. First Steps was inspired by a widely-seen, enthusiastically received 1982 piece on 60 Minutes. Amy Steel plays Nan Davis, a young woman totally paralyzed in an auto accident. Judd Hirsch costars as Dr. Jerold Petrovsky, a bioengineer who attaches computerized electrodes to Nan to enable her to reclaim her muscle power.

    • Sheldon Larry
  5. Teenage Nan Davis is left paralyzed in a car accident and has a tough time accepting her new wheelchair-bound life. One day she hears about new research by Dr. Jerrold Petrofsky, about using external electric stimulations to enable paralyzed people to use their frozen muscles. She enters the research as a test subject and gets her reward when she walks up to receive her college diploma.

    • Sheldon Larry
    • CBS
  6. Brief Synopsis. Read More. This is a based-on-fact chronicle, initially the subject of a "60 Minutes" report, about an Ohio bio-engineer and the pretty 23-year-old paraplegic who, through the doctor's pioneering efforts with computer electrodes, successfully walks the ten steps to get her college diploma at her graduation in.

  7. Film Movie Reviews First Steps1985. First Steps. 1985. 2h. Biography/Drama. Advertisement. Cast. Amy Steel (Nan Davis) Judd Hirsch (Dr. Jerrold Petrofsky) Kim Darby (Sherry Petrofsky) Darlene ...

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