Word: twyman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MAURIE is an unprecedented film -the first full-scale weeper for men. It is the slightly fictionalized history of the relationship between Maurice Stokes, a black basketball player who was named rookie of the year after his first season with the Cincinnati Royals, then was mysteriously paralyzed, and Jack Twyman, a white man and one of the team's stars, who oversaw and financed a ten-year attempt to rehabilitate Stokes. In the end Stokes died, but not before recovering his ability to speak and to work, albeit painfully, with his hands...