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Indestructible (2008)

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Reviews Counted: 6

Fresh: 6

Rotten:0

Average Rating: 7.8/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:May 16, 2008 Limited

Synopsis: Diagnosed with ALS, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, 31 year-old Ben Byer begins documenting his life on camera. What begins as a series of video diaries grows into a three-year journey as he... Diagnosed with ALS, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, 31 year-old Ben Byer begins documenting his life on camera. What begins as a series of video diaries grows into a three-year journey as he searches for answers, and maybe even a cure.

Joined by his childhood friend Roko Belic (Academy Award™ nominee, Genghis Blues) as his cameraman, Ben takes the audience on a daring first-person ride through the world of ALS. As he meets with medical experts and other ALS sufferers, Ben reveals a hidden world in which people struggle to stand, to speak, and to remain alive as they await the breakthrough that might save them.

In China, Ben meets the inventor of an herbal compound that may prolong his life, an All-American weightlifter with ALS trying to cure himself through Tai Chi and acupuncture, fortune-tellers, monks and many others. When he discovers a radical fetal-cell transplant procedure in Beijing, Ben must decide if the operation’s potential to restore his body outweighs its danger. At once an impassioned cry for change and an artistic triumph from a filmmaker persevering against the odds, Indestructible delivers a universal message about the necessity of hope and the tragic joy of being alive. --© Official Site
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Starring: Ben Byer, Oliver Sacks

Starring: Ben Byer, Oliver Sacks

Director: Ben Byer

Director: Ben Byer
Screenwriter: Ben Byer
Producer: Ben Byer, Rebecca Rush
Composer: Alison Chesley
Studio: ALS Film Fund

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This documentary by playwright Ben Byer, who succumbed in July at after living six years with ALS, isn't about dying as much as finding purpose in an impossible challenge and giving comfort to fellow sufferers.

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01/05/09
Stan Hall
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An intimate, lacerating, absorbing visual diary of the three-year onset of terminal disease Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) in aspiring filmmaker Ben Byer.

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10/18/08
Eddie Cockrell
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Byer, despite the lousy hand fate dealt him, wasn’t much about gloom.

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07/17/08
Maureen M. Hart
Chicago Tribune
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... a stirring narrative, a movie of epic dramatic force that holds its own with the best of any major work of cinema.

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06/01/08
Beverly Berning
culturevulture.net

The result is something that is, though not necessarily unique in the annals of documentary history, as engaging as any such story can be, particularly when isolated and presented as sincerely as it is here.

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05/30/08
Tim Cogshell
Boxoffice Magazine

Byer’s sincerity is the grounding force in a film that serves as a wrenching reminder that the answers to our most essential questions must come from within.

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05/15/08
Sam Sweet
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