Watch: Different Drummers 2013 123movies, Full Movie Online – Different Drummers is based on a true story about two unusual boys in Spokane, Washington in the mid 1960s. In this more innocent time, when body builder Jack Lalanne ruled the airwaves, the two heroes, a couple of elementary school students, make a bold attempt to triumph over mortality through friendship. Eleven year old David is slowing down and is now wheelchair-bound by muscular dystrophy, while Lyle can’t stop speeding up. Back then, he was referred to as having a condition called MDB (Minimal Brain Dysfunction) but today he would be diagnosed with “Attention Deficit Disorder.” Lyle wants more than anything to get David out of his wheelchair and running again, and he concocts a wild scheme involving a science project, some firemen, drummers, the school principal, a cop and a hand-walk across the school gymnasium, among other things. It works like this: Inspired by his TV idol, Lalanne, and his message of “intestinal fortitude and willpower,” Lyle manages to convince David that he can teach him to run and in exchange David promises to help him create the scariest science-project-bug-collection in fourth grade history. Secretly, Lyle is using his attempt to get David out of his wheelchair as a test to find out once and for all if God actually exists. Once the pact is made, this unlikely pair embarks on a journey of discovery, adventure and risk. When Lyle begins to twist the rules in a desperate attempt to give his friend some of his own excess energy, they come face to face with life’s most inspiring and painful truths. Ultimately it is only through David’s death that Lyle discovers the true meaning of friendship, loyalty and miracles..
Plot: When David accurately foretells the death of their teacher and says God told him, Lyle devises a plan to find out if God really exists.
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such a sad and happy story, all rolled into one
As I write this review I’m crying like a baby. The movie has just finished. Not many movies reduce me to tears like this one. There are few words that could describe the sensitivity of this story. It deals with not only the major illness of muscular dystrophy but also the misunderstood condition of hyperactivity. The innocence of a little boy who always found himself in trouble with the powers that be but he didn’t understand why that if anything at all went wrong, he was always to blame. A teacher who used clichés that are readily understood by adults is frustrated when a child doesn’t understand what she is saying so he uses his resources to undercover the meaning, only to believe she means the opposite. When the movie began I cringed at the acting abilities of some of the cast but as the story developed, I forgot to cringe and the storyline is strong enough to overcome acting limitations.I gave Different Drummers a 9/10 because of the sensitive way that two medical conditions were brought together through children… one with no energy and one with too much.
bad acting and bad writing
Yes entertaining and a tearjerker, but terrible acting and writing. Nothing in the plot really fits together and oh such stiff acting. Christian movie-making has a long way to come based on this. On the other hand, I watched with my 10 and 12 year olds and it was non-offensive and had some positive messages. Still, so bad overall that I would not recommend.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 47 min (107 min)
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Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Adventure, Drama, Family
Director Don Caron, Lyle Hatcher
Writer Don Caron, Lyle Hatcher
Actors Brayden Tucker, Ethan Reed McKay, Colleen Carey
Country United States
Awards 5 wins
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