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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like The Raging Moon, it centres on a fiercely independent man confronting sudden paralysis, with anger, wit and an unsentimental insistence on dignity driving its intimate institutional drama.
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Why this pick
Its subjective visual approach places the viewer inside catastrophic physical confinement, finding mordant humour, desire and emotional resilience rather than treating disability as easy uplift.
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Why this pick
A raw, character-led drama about a wheelchair user whose bitterness and political awakening complicate a tender romance; it shares the social candour and emotional bruising of Forbes's film.
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Why this pick
Christy Brown's unruly humour, sexual frustration and combative need for autonomy make this far tougher and more alive than a conventional inspirational biopic.
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Why this pick
A compassionate but clear-eyed chamber drama about life after paralysis, shaped by sharp conversation and a protagonist whose demand for self-determination unsettles everyone around him.
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01 / THE STORY
Bruce Pritchard (Malcolm McDowell) is a 24-year-old working-class man and amateur soccer player with a passion for life. All this changes when he suddenly finds himself struck down by an incurable degenerative disease and needing to use a wheelchair for the rest of his life. He makes a self-imposed exile to a church-run home for the disabled, believing that it is best for his immediate family to forget about him the way he is now. His bitterness at his fate and his dislike of the rules and regulations of the place only serve to make him more withdrawn and angry at his enforced imprisonment.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Uncle Bob
Bill Charles
Jill Matthews
Bruce Pritchard
Sarah Charles
