Detroit-made "Gifted Hands" gets good reviews; Gooding's performance called Emmy-worthy

Story of Detroit youngster made good as world famous physician is getting thumbs up from critics across the country.  

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With its core story of a poor boy overcoming tremendous obstacles to become a transformative figure in his profession and the world, the biography, starring Cuba Gooding Jr. as the world-famous Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon, should be perfectly in sync with the Barack Obama zeitgeist. More than at any time since the Age of Anxiety in the 1950s, Americans seem eager for stories of individual achievement, and this one's one of the best anyone could imagine.

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