Trailer Tuesday: Murderball
Murderball
No, it's not a horror film. Murderball is a documentary about the sport of wheelchair rugby.
The documentary follows various Murderball players as they follow their dream to the Paralympics, the official Olympics for paraplegics. There, of course, the not-so-PC term "Murderball" is replaced with "Wheelchair Rugby." The trailer highlights Team USA and Team Canada, and I imagine that the movie does as well.
I would bet that the movie goes far in proving that wheelchair-bound people are not necessarily the feeble, fragile people that many people would assume. One of the athletes comments that he does more now in a wheelchair than he ever did able-bodied. Beyond the "I'm out to prove something" angle, the film seems to want to show you the touching stories of some of the players as well.
As expected, this excellent-looking movie that received the Audience Award and Jury Prize Award at both Sundance and the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival will receive only a limited release on July 8, 2005. Is anyone surprised?
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