2014 · drama · tv-movie · sports
Marvellous
Directed by Julian Farino1h 30m2014
Dramatisation of the true story of the life of Neil "Nello" Baldwin. Born with a mild learning disability but without the burden of social embarrassment & how his inexhaustible ability to see the good in any situation overcame any stigma society tried to label him with.
Our read: Marvellous (2014) reads as a cosy, steady, grounded drama · tv-movie · sports entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, steady, gentle drama / tv-movie, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- intimate
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