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- 2000 · Drama · 1h 37m
Flowers for Algernon is a 2000 American-Canadian television film written by John Pielmeier, directed by Jeff Bleckner and starring Matthew Modine. It is the second screen adaptation of Daniel Keyes ' 1966 novel of the same name following the 1968 film Charly .
- Jeff Bleckner
- Daniel Keyes (novel), John Pielmeier (teleplay)
Flowers for Algernon is a short story by American author Daniel Keyes, later expanded by him into a novel and subsequently adapted for film and other media. The short story, written in 1958 and first published in the April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1960. [2]
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- Daniel Keyes
- April 1959 (short story), March 1966 (novel)
- Harcourt, Brace & World
A Poignant Film! Cliff Robertson earned an Academy Award for playing the title role based on the novel by Daniel Keyes entitled "Flowers for Algernon." His portrayal is heartbreaking and you can't help but feel for the character who is the butt of so many jokes by his so-called colleagues and friends at his workplace, a bakery.
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- Cliff Robertson, Claire Bloom, Lilia Skala
Watch Flowers for Algernon with a subscription on Prime Video. A mentally impaired man (Matthew Modine) must adjust emotionally when a laboratory experiment raises his IQ to amazing levels.
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- Jeff Bleckner
- Drama
- Matthew Modine
Synopsis. Charlie Gordon is mentally handicapped and all he wants in life is to be a genius. When he gets picked for experimental surgery it looks like his dream may finally come true. But the surgery has side effects that could could kill Charlie.
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- Jeff Bleckner
- 2000
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Charly, American film drama, released in 1968, that was an adaptation of Daniel Keyes’s short story “Flowers for Algernon.” Cliff Robertson, in the title role, won an Academy Award for best actor. Charly. Cliff Robertson and Claire Bloom in Charly (1968), directed by Ralph Nelson.
Feb 20, 2000 · Daniel Keyes. Novel. John Pielmeier. Teleplay. Charlie Gordon is mentally handicapped and all he wants in life is to be a genius. When he gets picked for experimental surgery it looks like his dream may finally come true. But the surgery has side effects that could could kill Charlie.
