Sister Kenny

A very respectful, if slow, biography of a woman who fought her entire life to bring her own system of treating polio victims to international acceptance. Russell was nominated for an Oscar for her work as she limns a nearly 40-year period in the life of Australian Kenny, from her college days to age 60. Working from the book by Kenny and Ostenso, the screenwriters (who included costar Knox, a Canadian who played the president in WILSON) have toyed a bit with history in order to get a solid story on the screen. Russell, the daughter of Bondi and Dingle, is a newly graduated nurse who travels to the Australian outback, where she first encounters the ravages of infan...