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Ready and able: A film about disabled people that actually stars disabled actors? A milestone in mainstream cinema.

Nov 20, 2008

Ready and able: A film about disabled people that actually stars disabled actors? Patrick Barkham on a milestone in mainstream cinema http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/nov/20/film-disability-special-people-disable
(guardian.uk.com).

"A teenager in a wheelchair rolling off a cliff, two disabled people whacking each other with ping-pong bats - if it wasn't so funny, there would be plenty of uncomfortable moments in Special People, a low-budget British film that delights in confounding expectations, not least by having its disabled characters played by disabled actors, a revolutionary idea in mainstream cinema."

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