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Invitation to Dance is an eye-opening insider's account of disability in 21st century America. Simi Linton's story forms the narrative backbone of the documentary. The film traces both her personal growth as a disabled woman, and the larger historically significant developments around her over the past 40 years. Simi serves as navigator and tour guide to a world largely unknown, generally isolated, and commonly dismissed. In 1971, Simi Linton was...
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Criterion collection volume 705
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English
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A quiet woman in Northern Scotland marries an oil rig worker, who becomes paralyzed in an accident.
4) Coming home
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English
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A sad, poignant love story set against the social upheaval of the Vietnam war. Set in 1968, the story concerns a woman who, while her husband is serving in Vietnam, falls in love with a paraplegic while performing volunteer work at a San Diego veterans hospital.
5) Warm springs
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English
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The inspiring true story about Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, who seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia.
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English
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Bess, a pious, young Scottish woman, prays to God to send her husband, Jan, home from his job on an offshore oil rig. When an accident sends him home paralyzed, she's filled with guilt and submits to his wish that she take on other lovers, convinced that this will aid in his recovery.
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The story of one remarkable doctor as he transforms the standards of care for paraplegics. Arriving at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in 1944, Dr. Ludwig Guttmann reinvigorates the lives of his staff and patients with one daring move: he introduces athletics into the rehabilitation plan of his patients, paralyzed soldiers who have been cast-off and are facing death from neglect. Using sports, his patients learn to build not only physical strength, but...
Series
Film Movement volume 4 ; film 3
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Français
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Two rural neighbors who hate each other end up paralyzed after they get tangled in a tractor during a fight. They decide to roll across Europe to exact revenge from the tractor's manufacturer.
10) Sunlight Jr
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English
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A convenience store clerk, Melissa, and her paraplegic boyfriend, Richie are barely making ends meet when they find out they are having a baby. Genuinely excited, they are overjoyed until Melissa loses her job, and the motel where they are living at evicts them. They must now face the difficult choices about their lives and relationship.
11) Mangus!
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English
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A super fun, dark trailer-trash comedy, Mangus! revolves around high school senior Mangus Spedgewick (who lost his legs in a drunk driving accident the night of his high school prom) who hopes to fulfill his family's tradition of playing Jesus in the local annual production of 'Jesus Christ Spectacular'. However, the town leaders don't want a crippled Jesus. Mangus takes on their discriminatory casting and fights their decision.
12) T11 incomplete
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English
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A visiting home health aide, and recovering alcoholic, falls in love with her young paraplegic patient then betrays her trust.
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Español
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A paraplegic computer engineer that moves in a wheelchair and works in his basement starts hearing noises and voices of bank-robbers.
Un ingeniero de computación parapléjico que se mueve en una silla de ruedas y trabaja en su sótano comienza a oír ruidos y voces de ladrones de bancos.
15) The big street
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English
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Haughty nightclub singer Gloria Lyons doesn't have time for the little people, including Little Pinks, the busboy who adores her. Then Gloria is paralyzed when a mobster knocks her down the stairs, and those little people are the only ones who help her.
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Something is killing off townsfolk in Tarker's Mills. Something mysterious. Something ingenious. Something remotely human. But the only person in town with the courage to stop this lurking menace is a thirteen-year-old boy, confined to a wheelchair since birth. Adapted to the screen by suspense master Stephen King from his 'Cycle of the Werewolf' novelette.
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English
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"Sometime in the near future, paraplegic prison inmate Matt Mills meets 'The Board' of Satoshi-Telefair Industries, and, under pressure, but swayed by the promise of walking again, volunteers for their Future Soldier Initiative. He's injected with an unknown substance in an experiment that's designed to kill, but when it restores his damaged organs and reengineers his strength, he's determined to get revenge on his brutal captors"--Container.
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An accident paralyzed his legs, but not his will to live and love! TV-movie about the struggles of a paraplegic college athlete. Paul Stallings, a happy-go-lucky veterinary student, is paralyzed from the waist down during a polo match. Feeling despondent, he decides to go to his grandfather₂s ranch and meets a young horse trainer, Marnie Clarkson, who helps him overcome his handicap and learn how to live and love again.
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Español
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Una noche, tres jóvenes delincuentes, entran a robar a la casa de un político corrupto con mucho dinero en efectivo; pero, tras obtener el dinero y atar a la familia, las delincuentes descubren que, en el sótano de la casa, el político y su esposa tienen atada a su pequeña hija con signos de haber sido brutalmente torturada y deciden ayudarla. Sin embargo, lo que las delincuentes desconocen es que la niña está poseída y que, al liberarla,...
20) The men
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English
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An ex-WWII GI, Ken returns home after he's paralyzed in battle. Residing in the paraplegic ward of a veteran's hospital and embittered by his condition, he refuses to see his fiancé and sinks into a solitary world of hatred and hostility. Head physician, Dr. Brock cajoles the withdrawn Ken into the life of the ward, where fellow patients Norm, Leo, and Angel, begin to pull him out of his spiritual miasma.
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