Maniac Magee (film)
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Maniac Magee | |
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Directed by | Bob Clark |
Written by | Jerry Spinelli Michael Nolin Jack Zurla Mark Zaslove |
Starring | Michael Angarano Orlando Brown Kyla Pratt |
Music by | Jim Lathan |
Cinematography | Marshall Adams |
Editing by | Kevin D. Ross |
Distributed by | Nickelodeon |
Release date(s) | 2003 |
Country | USA |
Language | English |
IMDb profile |
In 2003, a television film of Maniac Magee was made on the Nickelodeon network.
[edit] Cast
- Michael Angarano: Maniac (Jeffrey Lionel) Magee
- Melissa Bickerton: Dottie Freeze
- Orlando Brown: Mars Bar
- Brandon de Paul: Russell McNab
- Shan Elliot: Bump Gilliam
- Isaiah Griffin: Piper McNabb
- Adam Hendershott: Big John McNabb
- Wyatt Knight: Mr. Magee
- Richard Lawson: Mr. Beale
- Garrett Morris: Mr. Cobble
- Jada Pinkett Smith: Narrator
- Kyla Pratt: Amanda Beale
- Nastassja Schmiedt: Hester Beale
- Rip Torn: George McNab
- Phil Van Tee: Officer Dan Curdle
- Rolonda Watts: Mrs. Beale
- Zachary Williams: Lester Beale
[edit] Plot summary
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee, an orphan who is homeless and is a baseball superstar, can run very fast on railroad tracks, and is able to soothe racial tensions in his town of Two Mills as he tries to find a home. Two Mills is divided between the African-Americans and whites by Hector Street (Blacks on East End, Whites on West End). The racial tensions in this film are very strong. Maniac is very confused about the color of his skin and is blind in a way.