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It addresses the essential human need for dignity, for freedom, for mastery over one's life.
The script, despite doses of irreverent humour, feels manipulative...
Funny and moving, and more entertaining than some of the movies you are considering this weekend.
For all its noble intentions and vigorous performances, never transcends the claustrophobic character study.
By all outward appearance and promotional literature, this movie wishes to depict the lives of seriously handicapped people in as real and accurate a way as possible. So why does it resort to some of the most insultingly lame clichés imaginable?
A modest, relatively low-budget affair graced with strong stars and sharp dialogue.
Director Damien O'Donnell has achieved a warm and uplifting movie which is marred only by a brief drift into melodrama in the middle.
A technical mess. The final version looks like an unfinished cut.
Full marks for intent; barely a pass for execution.
O'Donnell should be lauded for offering a sensitive portrayal of disabled people without ever being patronizing.
Rory O'Shea is half sitcom, half sap.
Spiky-haired, handsome MacAvoy shows us how to be audacious and prominent without moving more than his face and two fingers.
Irish drama about disability, interdependence and self-determination is nothing new, but it's nicely made, with two great performances.
Tries and fails to juggle humor, sentimentality and political correctness with its punk war cry.
Rory O'Shea, challenging and difficult to watch at times, is to be applauded for taking us about as close to reality as a situation like this allows.
Randle Patrick McMurphy in a motorized wheelchair.
Perhaps a better moniker would have been One Flew Over My Left Foot.
Nobody will be shocked to learn people with cerebral palsy are people too
This problematic individual is quickly reduced to symbolic chump change. Pale martyrdom ensues, as he's dulled down and sanctified according to trite Hollywood formula. Yawn.
How ironic that a movie that claims to assert independence for the disabled cannot set its protagonists free for even a second.
Tries and fails to juggle humor, sentimentality and political correctness with its punk war cry.
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