Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien is a 1996 American short documentary film directed by Jessica Yu. Mark O'Brien was a journalist and poet who lived in Berkeley, California. The documentary explored his spiritual struggle coping with his disability; he had to use an iron lung much of the time due to childhood polio. O'Brien died on 4 July 1999, from post-polio syndrome. It won an Oscar at the 69th Academy Awards in 1997 for Documentary Short Subject.
Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien has generally received positive reviews.
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Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien was released in 1996 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 3 reviews, giving Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien (1996) an average rating of 74%.
Overall, film critics prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 80%, compared to cinema-goers, who gave it a lower average score of 60%. Professional critics were more impressed with Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien than amateur reviewers were.
With a score of 74%, Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1996, which stands at 58%.
Other movies from 1996 with similar scores include films like Pusher, Primal Fear and The Rock.
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