Murderball
by Dana Adam Shapiro, Henry Alex Rubin
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Actor: Andy Cohn, Joe Bishop, Joe Soares, Keith Cavill, Mark ZupanDirector: Dana Adam Shapiro, Henry Alex Rubin
Brand: Image Entertainment
Producer: Dana Adam Shapiro
Producer: Christian Ettinger
Producer: Jeff Sackman
Producer: Jeffrey V. Mandel
Producer: Mark Urman
Producer: Micah Green
Producer: Randy Manis
Producer: Sara Alize Cross
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 88 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-11-29
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Velocity / Thinkfilm
DVD Reviews of Murderball
DVD Review: Wonderful film
Summary: 5 Stars
Great film as a realistic view of disability. Also a nice way to learn the basics of Quad Rugby.
DVD Review: Real gimps....YEAH!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
LOVE this movie!!! I've been in a chair for 23 years and this is the first movie I've seen where the gimps aren't pitiful! LOVE ZUPAN!!!! Shows how crazy most gimps are and why most of us ended up in chairs in the first place!!!DVD Review: One of the best documentaries I've seen
Summary: 5 Stars
Great movie, it couldn't have been scripted. The guys will have you laughing through the whole movie. Love and hate the ending... watch it and you will too.DVD Review: Murderball
Summary: 5 Stars
It's four years since I first saw this movie, and it lingers in my mind as if it had been last week, haunting me. It is definitely in the top 5 on my all time favorite movies list. I find myself recommending it to friends or casual acquaintances on a several times a month since its release whenever movies come up.
It is a documentary written by one of the players in the movie. All competitors are actual quads, no actors anywhere. The film flows seamlessly from background on various participants and how they became wheelchair bound to the action in the incredibly intense competition on the field/court. These guys ask no quarter and sure as hell are not giving any. If you appreciate competition between teams who are in excellent condition (everywhere they can be), well trained and coordinated, functioning like a master craftsman's finely tuned precision machine, you will appreciate the athleticism and competition here.
The characters are real and engaging. The story is compelling and well told. The competition will bring you to the edge of your seat. It all comes together flawlessly to give you a movie that takes you to another world for 88 minutes.
If you don't deal well with violence in athletic competition (nothing gratuitous), you may find this is simply too much for you. However, if you are comfortable watching contact sports like ice hockey, football (soccer), or American football, you will not have a problem. You're dealing with anything but a bunch of pantywaists here. Just because a guy is in a wheelchair does not mean he's fragile.
DVD Review: Hardcore
Summary: 5 Stars
Jack/Joe Bishop is a friend of my family. So when I saw he was in this movie I had to see it. My dad was 16 when Jack broke his neck and I use to watch him play this sport when I was about 8 or 9 years old back in the early 90s at Lake Worth High school. The documentary is hardcore. Murderball by Joe Soares, Keith Cavill, Mark Zupan, Joe Bishop, Andy Cohn.
Description of Murderball
A film about tough highly competitive athletes: quadriplegic rugby players. Whether by car wreck fist fight or gun shot these men were forced to live life sitting down. This is a film about family honor sex & the triumph of love over loss: about standing up even after your spirit-& your spine-has been crushed Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 09/04/2007 Run time: 86 minutes Rating: RMore than merely a sports documentary or an inspirational profile of triumph over adversity, Murderball offers a refreshing and progressive attitude toward disability while telling unforgettable stories about uniquely admirable people. It's ostensibly a film about quadriplegic rugby (or "Murderball," as it was formerly known), in which players with at least some loss of physical function in all four limbs navigate modified wheelchairs in a hardcore, full-contact sport that takes them all the way to the Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece, in 2004. But as we get to know paralyzed or amputee players on Team USA like Andy Cohn, Scott Hogsett, Bob Lujano and charismatic team spokesman Mark Zupan, we come to understand that quad rugby is a saving grace for these determined competitors, who battle Team Canada coach (and former Team USA superstar) Joe Soares en route to the climactic contest in Athens. Simply put, Murderball is the best film to date about living with a severe disability, but codirectors Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro avoid the sappy, inspirational sentiment that hampers nearly all mainstream films involving disability. By the time this blazing 85-minute film reaches its emotional conclusion, the issue of disability is almost irrelevant; these guys are as normal as anyone, and their life stories led to Murderball becoming the most critically acclaimed documentary of 2005. --Jeff Shannon
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