David Henrie (Wizards of Waverly Place) will play the lead in 1,000 to 1: The Cory Weissman Story, the true story of a young basketball player who suffered a catastrophic stroke as a freshman at Gettysburg College but through determination and an indomitable spirit returned to the court for one remarkable moment in the last game of his senior year. The chances of him surviving the stroke at all were bleak. The odds of him returning to the court were astronomical. Multiple Emmy® nominee Beau Bridges (Without Warning: The James Brady Story, The Descendants) stars as the Gettysburg College basketball coach George Petrie and Jean Louisa Kelly (Mr. Holland's Opus, Yes, Dear) plays Cory's mother Tina, a physical therapist who became her son's partner in a long recovery.
Legendary trumpet player and six-time Grammy® Award winner Arturo Sandoval, who won an Emmy for the score to the HBO film of his own life story, For Love or Country (starring Andy Garcia), will compose and record the score for the film. 1,000 to 1: The Cory Weissman Story is produced by former longtime Disney executive Bruce Gordon and Bob Burris (Growing Pains), who also wrote the script, and will be directed by Michael Levine (Nowhere Man). Film is a production of Gettysburg Great Productions, LLC, a subsidiary of Gettysburg College. 1,000 to 1 tells the inspiring true story of Weissman, a 1,000-point high school basketball star, who suffered a catastrophic, life-threatening stroke at the end of his freshman year leaving him paralyzed on the left side. Three years later, in the last game of his senior year, improbably, even impossibly, Cory returned to the basketball court. Gettysburg basketball coach George Petrie's plan was simple. Non-playing, still-recovering, Co-captain Cory Weissman would be a starter, would hear his name announced and then, to avoid any possibility of injury, would be immediately removed from the game after the opening tap.Videos