Love Leads the Way: A True Story

1984 NR 1h 39m 7.6

A recently blinded man becomes one of the first American users of a seeing eye dog and must fight to remove the legal barriers impeding its use.

When an insurance salesman is blinded in a boxing accident, his world is turned upside down as he has trouble functioning in his sightless world. All seem hopeless until he learns of an innovative European project that trains dogs as guides for the blind. He explores the idea and decides to train for a dog. He eventually gets a guide dog, but soon learns that he is barred from taking his needed companion into transit vehicles and public buildings and businesses. With a newfound friend, he must fight to make the country recognize that those rules are unfair to him and his guide.

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Info about Love Leads the Way: A True Story

Studio(s): Walt Disney Pictures, A Jimmy Hawkins/David Permut Production

Originally Released: Oct 07, 1984

Production Country: United States

Genres: Drama, Family, History