Benjy
MovieTitle | Benjy |
User score | 6.7 |
Release date | Jan 1, 1951 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Fred Zinnemann |
Production country | US |
Run time | 10 min. |
Benjy is a 1951 American short documentary film directed by Fred Zinnemann. It won an Oscar in 1952 for Documentary Short Subject. Henry Fonda narrates this short film about a boy who was handicapped from birth. An orthopedic pediatrician wants to provide a therapeutic regimen that could cure the child, a scoliosis patient, but first he needs to convince the boy's parents, who have rejected the child because of his disabilities.