NR | 1h 31min | Documentary, Biography | 14 July 2022 (USA)
It would be next to impossible for anyone with even half a soul to sit through a movie such as “Bowen’s Heart” and not get goose bumps or maybe shed a tear or two. Overcoming adversity while providing inspiration to others is a winning combination for any human-interest movie, but when it’s a documentary about an infant child born with a deformed heart, the chances of making a film that couldn’t get under the audience’s skin, at least a little, are virtually non-existent.
Bowen Hammitt on a trip to the hospital with his family. (John Lanier /Terror Films Team)
Before being born in 2010 in Nashville, Bowen Hammit was diagnosed in utero with HLHS (hypoplastic left heart syndrome), a disease which effects every one in 3,841 U.S. births or around 1,025 per year. The mortality rate is high with only one in five surviving beyond the age of 18….