The Terry Fox Story

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The Terry Fox Story is a Canadian-American film, released in 1983. A biopic of Canadian amputee athlete Terry Fox, the film was produced for HBO in the United States with Canadian coproducers. It was the first television film ever made for a cable network, although it also had a theatrical release in Canada.

The film starred Eric Fryer as Fox, Chris Makepeace as his brother Darrell, and Robert Duvall as Fox's publicist, Bill Vigars. The cast also included Rosalind Chao, R. H. Thomson, Elva Mai Hoover, Michael Zelniker, Saul Rubinek and Patrick Watson. It was written by Howard Hume, John Kastner and Rose Kastner, and directed by Ralph L. Thomas.

[edit] Awards and criticism

The film won six Genie Awards at the 5th Genie Awards ceremony in 1984:

• Best Picture
• Best Actor (Fryer)
• Best Supporting Actor (Zelniker)
• Best Sound (Joe Grimaldi, Bruce Carwardine, Austin Grimaldi and Glen Gauthier)
• Best Sound Editing (same as above; tied with The Wars)
• Best Film Editing (Ron Wisman)

The film was also nominated for Best Cinematography (Richard Ciupka) and Best Supporting Actress (Hoover), but did not win. Duvall was nominated for Best Actor at the 1983 CableACE Awards, but did not win.

However, the film was criticized by Fox's family for depicting him as ill-tempered. [1]