Netflix’s new streaming drama feels like it could have been pulled right out of reality.

Lucca’s World, streaming onNetflix, has fans wondering if it was based on a true story.

Is Lucca’s World Based on a True Story?

Lucca’s World Movie

The hit Netflix drama is based on the autobiographical bookThe Two Hemispheres of Luccaby Barbara Anderson.

That is until Barbara hears of an experimental miracle treatment in India that could potentially cure her son.

The machines are already in Mexico, but we need the final approvals."

Juan Pablo Medina as Andres holding Julián Tello as Lucca in a doctor’s office in Lucca’s World

Chenillo notably recreated many specific scenes using Anderson Family photos and video.

Many scenes were based on family videos and photos, which made the experience doubly powerful.

I saw us ‘being’ other people and my body froze.

Bárbara Mori as Bárbara Anderson holding a phone and showing it to Juan Pablo Medina as Andres and looking shocked in Lucca’s World

As they often say that reality outdoes fiction, this time fiction catapulted our life to another level."

Luuca’s Worldis just the latest streaming hit to describe the lives and times of people with cerebral palsy.

Lucca’s Worldis streaming on Netflix.

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