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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a 2007 biographical drama film based on Jean-Dominique Bauby's memoir of the same name. The film depicts Bauby's life after suffering a massive stroke, on 8 December 1995, at the age of 43, which left him with a condition known as locked-in syndrome. The condition paralyzed him from the neck down. Although both eyes worked, doctors decided to sew up his right eye as it was not irrigating properly and they were worried that it would become infected. He was left with only his left eye and the only way that he could communicate was by blinking his left eyelid.

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Director: Julian Schnabel
Distributor: Pathé (France)
Miramax Films
Release date: March 23, 2007
Running time: 112 minutes
Budget: $14 million
Gross: $19,777,646

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