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Featuring fierce rivalry, stopwatch suspense, and larger-than-life personalities, MURDERBALL, winner of the Documentary Audience Award and a Special Jury Prize for Editing at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, is a film about tough, highly competitive rugby players. Quadriplegic rugby players. Whether by car wreck, fist fight, gun shot, or rogue bacteria, these men have been forced to live life sitting down. In their own version of the full-contact sport, they battle each other in custom-made gladiator-like wheelchairs, pursuing gold medals and proving to themselves and to anyone who sees them in action that there is life after disability.

From the gyms of middle America to the Olympic arena in Athens, Greece, MURDERBALL tells the story of a group of indomitable, world-class athletes unlike any ever shown on screen. It will smash every stereotype you ever had about "gimps" and "cripples." It is a film about family, revenge, honor, and the triumph of love over loss. But most of all, it is a film about standing up, even after your spirit, and your spine, have been crushed.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/murderball/

100% fresh thus far, the trailer looks great. Definately on the Must See list for me, but i dunno if it will play close, since i live in the middle of nowhere.

I saw the commerical for this and it looked pretty hardcore... I will get it a watch, I wonder when Vegas will get some lines up..

Lady H_B and I saw this last night. It was fantastic. Funny, emotional, fascinating, all of that without ever being maudlin. Couldn't give this movie a higher recommendation.

Just saw this, and it left me with the impression that I have alot of respect for anyone who takes a horrible situation, and makes the best of it. It also made me want to shut up about any whiny thing that may be going on with myself. Talk about a reality check.

Saw it over the weekend. Good movie.

Having done documentary work in the past (on a much smaller scale), I was impressed by how well the film-makers dealt with the unexpected problem of ... removed possible spoiler.

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Originally Posted by Senator

*extremely vague statements that might be considered spoilers below*

I thought it was probably the best documentary I'd ever seen. The storyline featuring the newly-handicapped kid was pretty sad, watching him come to grips with it all.

I also like how the filmmakers didn't force us to feel sympathy for everyone simply because of their position. The guy who had become the Canadian coach was a total asshole, wheelchair or not. I think they really tried to show them ass fully-shaped people (good and bad) rather than it being a paint-by-numbers triumph of the will sort of thing.

Highly recommended.

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Originally Posted by JeeberD

Spoiler alert?

I suppose. I'm not sure knowing that info would really spoil anything about the movie, but I've removed it just in case.

Well, gee, now I want to know what the damned spoiler is.

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Originally Posted by Pumpy Tudors

Well, gee, now I want to know what the damned spoiler is.

Someone is a ringer? Now *that* would be a spoiler.

This is pretty cool. I just got through talking to Mark Zupan, the guy with the shaved head and goatee from Murderball. I'm waiting for my flight from Denver to Austin, and he ended up sitting next to me in the gate area.