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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 104 min.
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Plot: An author who makes a living debunking supernatural phenomena checks into a haunted hotel room where no one has ever lived to check out in the morning.
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Cast: John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Mary McCormack, Tony Shalhoub. Directed by Mikael Håfström.
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Categories: Horror ∙ Contracts ∙ Disability |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 121 min.
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Plot: Afflicted with a mysterious blindness, a group of those infected must band together to survive a government-imposed quarantine.
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Cast: Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Alice Braga, Yusuke Iseya, Yoshino Kimura, Don McKellar, Maury Chaykin, Mitchell Nye, Danny Glover, Gael García Bernal. Directed by Fernando Meirelles.
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Categories: Disability ∙ Medical ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: NR Stars:
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Format: DVD 83 min.
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Plot: Chronicle of Greg Walloch's performances, life, daily trips to and from his Harlem apartment. His comedy act is based on the fact that he is disabled and openly gay.
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Cast: Greg Walloch, Stephen Baldwin, Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara. Directed by Eli Kabillio.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Disability ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 132 min.
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Plot: A mentally retarded man fights for custody of his 7-year-old daughter, and in the process teaches his cold-hearted lawyer the value of love and family.
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Cast: Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dakota Fanning, Dianne Wiest, Laura Dern. Directed by Jessie Nelson.
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Categories: Family ∙ Disability ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 113 min. B&W
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Plot: An eccentric and acid-tongued radio lecturer, breaks his leg on the doorstep of a prominent Ohio family and must remain confined to the unwilling family's home.
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Cast: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Money Woolley. Directed by William Keighley.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Disability ∙ Romance |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 106 min. B&W
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Plot: The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.
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Cast: Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory, Inga Swenson, Kathleen Comegys. Directed by Arthur Penn.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Biography ∙ Disability |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 86 min.
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Plot: A film about paraplegics who play full-contact rugby in Mad Max-style wheelchairs.
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Cast: Mark Zupan, Joe Soares, Keith Cavill, Joe Bishop, Andy Cohn. Directed by Dana Adam Shapiro.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Sports ∙ Disability |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: The story of Christy Brown, who was born with cerebral palsy and learned to paint and write with his only controllable limb, his left foot.
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Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Ray McAnally, Brenda Fricker. Directed by Jim Sheridan.
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Categories: Disability ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 134 min.
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Plot: After leaning that he has an autistic brother who inherits the majority of his father's estate, a self-centered young man kidnaps his brother and takes him on a cross country trip.
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Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino. Directed by Barry Levinson.
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Categories: Family ∙ Disability ∙ Estates |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 92 min.
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Plot: When a girl attending a Baptist high school becomes pregnant, she finds herself ostracized and demonized.
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Cast: Jena Malone, Mandy Moore, Macaulay Culkin, Patrick Fugit. Directed by Brian Dannelly.
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Categories: Religion ∙ Comedy ∙ Disability |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 95 min.
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Plot: A man in an iron lung contacts a professional sex surrogate.
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Cast: John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy, Moon Bloodgood, Annika Marks, Adam Arkin, Rhea Perlman. Directed by Ben Lewin.
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Categories: Disability ∙ Sexuality ∙ Medical |
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Rated: Stars: ****
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 123 min.
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Plot: A lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity at a top secret research facility in the 1960s.
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Cast: Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Octavia Spencer, Zelda Fuller, Michael Stuhlbarg, Doug Jones . Directed by Guillermo del Toro.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Disability ∙ Government |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 79 min.
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Plot: A heart-rending tale of an extended family with deaf and hearing members across three generations.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Josh Aronson.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Disability ∙ Family |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 84 min. B&W
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Plot: A serial killer is targeting disabled young women in a small town, and the mute servant in the Warren mansion fears that she is next.
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Cast: Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, Kent Smith, Rhinda Fleming, Gordon Oliver, Else Lanchester. Directed by Robert Spiodmak.
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Categories: Disability ∙ Horror ∙ Women |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 133 min. B&W
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Plot: In a decaying Hollywood mansion a former child star, and her sister, a movie queen forced into retirement after a crippling accident, live in virtual isolation.
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Cast: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono. Directed by Robert Aldrich.
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Categories: Horror ∙ Disability ∙ Family |
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