She couldn't walk—until science and stubbornness proved everyone wrong.
Teenage Nan Davis is left paralyzed in a car accident and has a tough time accepting her new wheelchair-bound life. One day she hears about new research by Dr. Jerrold Petrofsky, about using external electric stimulations to enable paralyzed people to use their frozen muscles. She enters the research as a test subject and gets her reward when she walks up to receive her college diploma.
Acting
Judd Hirsch doing serious scientist, not sitcom dad.
Writing
Based on actual 1983 research—real science, real stakes.
Director
Sheldon Larry
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on real Dr. Petrofsky's 1983 experiments at Wright State; the actual Nan Davis consulted on production.
This is peak 80s 'supercrip' narrative—disability as obstacle to overcome through individual grit, not systemic change. The film's earnestness ages... complicatedly.
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