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Saturday, July 19, 2008

Disturbingly Ironic :Quid Pro Quo

..is a movie in which an able bodied actor, Nick Stahl, plays a guy in a wheelchair who finds out that there are people who want to be disabled and in wheelchairs.




Saw an article in this move in Action, United Spinal's magazine.

This review notes a positive: the lead character, a wheelchair user, is portrayed as a reporter who is active, gets around the city well and doesn't fall into some of the usual cliches about disability.

2 comments:

FridaWrites said...

Ugh. Weird how the review says that the actual wheelchair user isn't disabled. Especially since NYC is so accessible (!?!).

Ruth said...

LOL Yes and it's hard without seeing it to know exactly how the character was portrayed. So many wheelchair users are active that they could have used an actual actor with a disability anyhow.