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Bauby suffers a stroke and becomes paralysed as a result, being only able to move one eye. This is a true story about a French man named Jean-Dominique Bauby. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007).But he still managed to write a book which is what this film is based on. When he was a child everybody thought he was an idiot basically, even his family. As a child he couldn’t speak and could only use his left foot. My left foot is a true story about a man called Christy Brown who has cerebral palsy. Even Stephen Hawking himself had said that it was like looking into a mirror! Eddie Redmayne thoroughly deserved his Best Actor Oscar. Eddie Redmayne, who plays Hawking, was fantastic in the role and at times it was easy to believe that we were watching Hawking himself on screen. The film also shows Hawking’s battle with Motor Neurone Disease which gets progressively worse. The film tells the story of how Hawking developed his famous theories about the origin of the universe and black holes whilst at Cambridge University. The Theory of Everything is based on Stephen Hawking’s wife Jane Wilde’s book “ My Life with Stephen Hawking”. The Sessions is a funny and moving exploration of the issues of sex and disability that will make you laugh, and probably will also make you cry. The film follows Mark (John Hawkes) and his sex surrogate Cheryl (Helen Hunt) as they embark on a number of sex therapy sessions aiming to explore Mark’s sexuality. After realising that he is “nearly past his use by date” he decides to hire a sex surrogate to help him lose his virginity before it’s too late. Unable to move after contracting polio as a child, writer Mark O’Brien, spends most of his life in an iron lung to help him breathe. Do yourself a favour and just watch the original instead.

However, I refuse to watch it, not only because it has had terrible reviews but also because I don’t see the point of its existence. Well worth watching! Recently there was a remake of this film called “The Upside”. This is an excellent film and shows that if you find the right carer, who has the right attitude, then there is much fun to be had in life. On the face of it, the pair seem an unlikely match but, like they say, opposites attract and they strike up a lasting friendship. Intouchables is a French comedy, based on a true story, about a rich quadriplegic and his ex-convict carer. James McAvoy and Steven Robertson star as Rory and Michael respectively. The film is funny but also moving, and highlights the fact that you need to make the most of whatever hand you are dealt in life. Rory, being rebellious, leads Michael on adventures into the outside world in pursuit of independence.

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This is a comedy which centres on two young disabled guys, Rory and Michael, who are intent on living life to the full and escaping the care home in which they live. So without further ado, in no particular order, here are 10 Films about disability that you need to see. Nonetheless, there are some really good films out there that focus on disability. However, a few films have come under fire for casting able-bodied actors in a role as a disabled person, when a disabled actor could have done the job just as well. So it’s always refreshing when a film comes along that specifically focuses on disability and has disabled people as the main characters. There seems to be a distinct lack of disabled characters in soaps or dramas, and in films. Disabled people are not often well represented on film and TV.