The Miracle Worker

Synopsis : This movie is the story about Anne Sullivan, and her efforts in working with a young sullen Helen Keller. The movie focuses on Anne’s struggle to draw Helen, a blind and prelingually deaf girl out of her world of darkness and silence. Helen has been unable to communicate with her family except through physical temper tantrums since a childhood illness took her two senses from her at the age of 19 months old. She is allowed to eat with her hands, knock over or break anything and basically do whatever else she desires. All of this while being looked at with pity by her family. Her family loves her but they are all convinced she is a dumb, soft-brained child with the intelligence of an animal who will never learn anything. She is barely pacified with candy when she throws a tantrum and is headed toward institutionalization in a sanitarium when Anne Sullivan enters her life as Helen’s parents' last-ditch effort to avoid the inevitable.