Awesome / The Miracle Worker

• In the 1962 film the breakfast scene, where Annie attempts to teach Helen table manners, is one of the most astounding eight minutes in cinema. The critic David Thomson considered it to be more violent than the climactic scene of Bonnie and Clyde, another film by the same director.
• Annie calling out Captain Keller and Kate for spoiling Helen out of pity for her condition and how it has damaged her.
  Annie: Pity?! For this tyrant?! The whole house turns on her whim! Is there anything she wants she doesn't get? I'll tell you what I pity; that the sun won't rise and set for her all her life and everyday you're telling her it will. What will you and your pity do when you're under the strawberries, Captain Keller? [...] Serves you good, that's all! It's far less trouble to feel sorry for her than it is to teach her anything better!
• Helen's final "Eureka!" Moment, taken straight from the true story as she suddenly realizes the connection between the "finger game" Annie has been doing with her and the water currently running over her hand. The symbols are the things. And just like that, this blind and deaf girl who spent her first seven years almost completely unable to express what's in her mind realizes that everything in the world has a name, and she eagerly drags Annie around to ask the names of several other things around them (actually quite toned down from how it really happened, as Helen drove her poor teacher to exhaustion doing this for hours).
• Jimmy supporting Annie by physically blocking Captain Keller from trying to intervene in her disciplining Helen, asking his father if he ever considered that fact that he might be wrong for a change.