
Maniac Magee is a television film made for the Nickelodeon network, based on the novel of the same name by Jerry Spinelli.[1] The story follows twelve-year-old Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee, an orphaned runaway with many extraordinary and athletic talents, who arrives in a town divided with racial conflict. The film was broadcast on Nickelodeon on February 23, 2003.[2]