A Mile In His Shoes – Movie Review & Giveaway

Carlie Kercheval

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From the director of “Angels In the Outfield” comes an inspiring story about a special boy with an amazing gift, and the coach who believed. Dean Cain and Luke Schroder star in the GMC movie based on the book “The Legend of Mickey Tussler”.

MY REVIEW
My daughter and I watched the movie A Mile In His Shoes last night and enjoyed it on so many different levels. First off, we both LOVE baseball so that was already a huge PLUS in our books (smile). However, I think what particularly interested us in this movie was the main character, Mickey, has a form of autism called Asperger syndrome.  We know several people with Asperger syndrome so it was nice to see a main character portrayed this way.

In the movie Coach Murphy (better known as Murph) goes on a recruiting trip to help out his losing team. Along the way, he swerves and puts his car in a ditch. Shortly after his incident, a young man walks along the road chasing a farm pig. Thus, enters Mickey. 

After convincing Mickey to allow him to use the family telephone, Murph sees right away that Mickey has an unprecedented talent for pitching a baseball. So naturally he tries to recruit Mickey. Mickey’s overbearing father denies his request to recruit his son, and so Murph leaves his card behind and moves on.

Eventually Mickey is allowed to go for team tryouts and impresses everyone with his amazing pitching skills. Just when everything seemed to be going well, jealousy gets the best of one of his teammates and a horrible situation occurs. 

The movie did a great job teaching that regardless if a person has Asperger syndrome or not, it does not limit their ability to achi
eve their God given purpose. It shows how sheltering people with Asperger’s or having low expectations of their abilities is NOT the way to treat them. It also shows how faith in God can help you through any situation.

***Great family friendly movie with one scene insinuating a young man getting beat up and one scene where a young lady gives a young man a quick peck on the lips.*** 

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4 Comments

  1. Ok, it's a movie about Autism. I am always interested how Autism/Asperger's is portrayed in movies. We have 2 diagnosed on the spectrum, and life is always a challenge. This sounds like a movie that our oldest with Asperger's would enjoy watching and may help him not feel so alone to see someone else with it.

  2. I am a Mom with two boys with Autism and enjoy watching movies that about what life is like to have autism and would love to see this movie thanks for the review

  3. I love movies that show how anyone can overcome their challenges and succeed! Thank you so much for posting and I will be watching it soon. I love your blog it has a lot of great information!

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