Love Leads the Way: A True Story

TV Movie
1984
1h 39m

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7.5/10

260

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A recently blinded man becomes one of the first American users of a seeing eye dog and must fight to remove the legal barriers impeding its use.A recently blinded man becomes one of the first American users of a seeing eye dog and must fight to remove the legal barriers impeding its use.A recently blinded man becomes one of the first American users of a seeing eye dog and must fight to remove the legal barriers impeding its use.

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7.5/10

260

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The scene in which Buddy rescues Morrie from the burning car is not as far-fetched and 'Disneyfied' as one might imagine. In 2017, it was reported that a man in Seattle, WA, who was paralyzed from the neck down, started to fall forward in his chair. As the man's home health aide had stepped out to run an errand, the man's service dog had the presence of mind to wedge himself between the man's upper and lower body to ensure that he could keep breathing. When the man's home health aide returned, the dog waited until the man was returned to sitting and only then extricated himself, at which point he walked to a corner of the room and collapsed in exhaustion. The man estimated that the dog had maintained his position for the better part of an hour.

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Proprietor: [at a fancy restaurant] ... Sir, you asked to see the proprietor? If something's wrong, I'm sure we can straighten it out to your satisfaction.
Morris Frank: I hope so. I'm guided by a dog; she acts as my eyes.
Proprietor: Ah, yes; I've heard about you. You want me to allow dogs into my restaurant. I'm sorry, but I can't do that.
Morris Frank: Why not?
Proprietor: People would be very disturbed at having animals in eating places.
Morris Frank: How about the other folks eating here now? Will they second that, if we go and ask them?
[He turns to speak up, but the owner prevents him from doing so]
Proprietor: Sir - Sir...! I'd rather not have it come to such.
[He struggles to maintain his composure]
Proprietor: The issue is that dogs give off an *odor*.
Morris Frank: Do you smell anything strange?
Proprietor: I smell nothing, sir.
Morris Frank: Neither do I. Come on out, Buddy.
[Buddy emerges from under the table, where she has been hidden the whole time]
Morris Frank: So, my friend, what do you have to say about that? You never knew she was there, did you?
Proprietor: Three words: *No. Dogs. Allowed!* Now KINDLY take your *mutt* and leave, before I call the city pound.
Morris Frank: [with a shrug] Fine. Let's go, Buddy. I know a classier place than this!
[He leaves with Buddy]

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Featured review

8/10

A Movie Worth Seeing

Charming little movie about the founding of the Seeing-Eye program that began in the US in the early 1930's. With a touching performance by Timothy Bottoms as Morris Frank, the first blind person who was was given the task to prove that the program would work, and of course the German Shepard dog who played "Buddy" the first seeing-eye dog.

Holds your interests from beginning to end and leaves you feeling much better about there being good in the world then you thought there was before you saw the movie. Not exactly for young children, it's no Rin Tin Tin or Lassie film, but still one of the best dog or animal movies ever made and unlike most films about animals and people this movie is based on a true story which results, the Seeing Eye Program, are still with us today and bigger then ever.