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1) Champions
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A former minor-league basketball coach is ordered by the court to manage a team of players with intellectual disabilities. He soon realizes that despite his doubts, together, this team can go further than they ever imagined.
2) The upside
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"A recently paroled ex-convict, Dell, strikes up an unusual and unlikely friendship with a quadriplegic billionaire, Philip Lacasse, in this funny and warm-hearted buddy comedy. From worlds apart, Dell and Philip form an unlikely bond, bridging their differences and gaining invaluable wisdom in the process, giving each man a renewed sense of passion for all of life's possibilities"--Container.
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As a photographer with a broken leg, Stewart takes up the fine art of spying on his Greenwich Village neighbors during a summer heat wave. Things really begin to get hot when he suspects a salesman may have murdered his nagging wife and buried the body in a flower garden. He actively enlists the help of his girlfriend to investigate the highly suspicious chain of events. Events that ultimately lead to one of the most memorable and gripping endings...
4) The hill
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"The inspiring true story of baseball phenomenon Rickey Hill. The son of a small-town traveling pastor, Rickey shows an extraordinary talent for baseball despite being burdened by leg braces from a degenerative spinal disease. Driven by his faith and love of the sport, he continues to play against his father's wishes. But when a scout for the major leagues arrives, he must overcome his worsening condition and the division it causes in his family in...
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An irreverent, uplifting comedy about friendship, trust, and human possibility. Based on a true story of friendship between a handicapped millionaire and his street-smart ex-con caretaker, The Intouchables depicts an unlikely camaraderie rooted in honesty and humor between two individuals who, on the surface, would seem to have nothing in common.
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Louisa 'Lou' Clark lives in a quaint town in the English countryside. With no clear direction in her life, the quirky and creative 26-year old goes from one job to the next in order to make ends meet. Taking a job at the local 'castle' she becomes caregiver and companion to Will Traynor, a wealthy young banker who became wheelchair bound in an accident. Embarking together on a series of adventures, both Lou and Will get more than they bargained for....
7) The sessions
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Paralyzed and confined to an iron lung since childhood, poet-journalist Mark O'Brien has overcome adversity time and time again. But now, at age 38, he faces his toughest challenge yet: losing his virginity. With the help of a beautiful therapist, a sympathetic priest, and his own unbridled sense of optimism and humor, Mark embarks on an extraordinary personal journey to discover the wondrous pleasures that make life worth living. Includes bonus features....
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Adapted from W. Somerset Maugham's novel, this saga of unrequited love follows club-footed English art student Philip Carey on his quest to win the love of slatternly waitress Mildred Rogers, a vulgar beauty who holds Philip's deformity in contempt. Giving up art for medicine and vowing to shake his unhealthy obsession with Mildred, Philip romances a supportive writer but when pregnant and abandoned Mildred appears, Philip's self-destructive feelings...
9) 4 wheel Bob
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This film tells the story of Bob Coomber, an intrepid adventurer who sets out to be the first wheelchair hiker to cross the famously steep and prolonged 11,845-foot Kearsarge Pass in the Sierra Nevada. For Bob in his wheelchair, this adventuring is fraught with danger. He must continually deal with altitude sickness and the threat of a diabetic coma, not to mention possible fatal or crippling falls in the steep terrain. Away from the Sierra, Bob is...
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The true story of Olympic hopeful Jill Kinmont, who was paralyzed in a skiing accident while competing in a pre-Olympic competition in the 1950's. Left paralyzed from the neck down, she overcame self-pity and helplessness to become a teacher on a Paiute reservation.
11) Rear Window
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A recently paralyzed architect (Jason Kemp) believes he has witnessed a murder from his apartment window. Jason's colleague (Claudia) quickly becomes his partner in trying to solve the mysterious puzzle that lies in the apartment across the way. The more-than-patient detective (Moore) grudgingly responds to their repeated calls and accusations, but believes Jason's imagination is getting the best of him. Determined to uncover the truth, Jason continues...
12) Wonderstruck
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Tells the tale of two deaf children separated by fifty years. In 1927 New York City, Rose searches for the actress who's life she chronicles in her scrapbook; in 1977 in the Midwest, Ben runs away from home to find his father. The movie is based on the novel of the same title by Brian Selznick, which is the predecessor to his screen-adapted novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
13) The orphanage
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Laura decides to purchase her beloved childhood orphanage with dreams of restoring and reopening the long abandoned facility as a place for disabled children. The new environment awakens the imagination of Laura's son. His ongoing fantasy games played with an invisible friend quickly turn into something more disturbing. Upon seeing her family increasingly threatened by the strange occurrences in the house, Laura looks to a group of parapsychologists...
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A young orphan named Mary is sent to live at the dark and foreboding English estate of her widowed uncle. She discovers a secret garden which was abandoned after a tragic accident. With the help of her crippled cousin Colin, and Dickon the country boy, her spirit is gradually reawakened as they bring the garden back to life.
16) The mighty
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With his loving and supportive mother, 13-year-old Kevin moves in next door to another teen, Max. though both have problems that label them as outcasts, Kevin and Max discover that by proudly combining their strengths on uniting as one, they can overcome their individual limitations and triumph over any adversity. As the two set out on a series of courageous adventures, they find the mightiest treasure of all: friendship!
17) Pumpkin
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When Carolyn McDuffy finds her "have-it-all" existence doesn't have all she wants, she embarks on an unlikely romance. When her sorority chooses a special needs group as their sorority project, Carolyn finds what she has been searching for, and ends up dragging her entire sorority kicking and screaming into a culture clash.
18) The ringer
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Pressured by a greedy uncle and a pile of debt, lovable loser Steve resorts to an unthinkable scheme. He pretends to be mentally challenged in order to rig the upcoming Special Olympics, to dethrone the reigning champion and bringing home the gold.
19) Passion fish
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A handicapped ex-soap opera star and her nurse explore the murkier aspects of men, romance, and family in the Louisiana bayou.
20) Murderball
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A film about tough, highly competitive quadriplegic rugby players. These men have been forced to live life sitting down, but in their own version of the full-contact sport, they smash each other in custom-made gladiator-like wheelchairs. Tells the story of a group of world-class athletes unlike any ever shown on screen. In addition to smashing chairs, it will smash every stereotype you ever had about the disabled.
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