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The Miracle Worker is a film based on the real life of Anne Sullivan, an aide hired as a teacher for a young girl Helen Keller sentenced to death and blind after recovering from a tragic illness. Their story is nothing short of a miracle, full of hardship and struggle, and relationships built on dependency, trust and loyalty. Anne first enters the Keller estate unappreciated and unwelcomed; however, Miss Sullivan needed to prove that Helen can be helped; which allowed her to strengthen her relationships when she became a member of the Keller family. Anne Sullivan was considered virtually blind as a child and raised with her younger brother Jimmie Sullivan in a state infirmary. Anne and her brother were abandoned by their abusive father at a young age, shortly after their mother's death. After numerous treatments Anne was able to recover some of her sight allowing her to read for short periods of time. His time in the infirmary was filled with chaos and fear, denying Jimmie treatment for a deadly disease, tuberculosis; leaving Anne alone, without family there...