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Official Website: www.murderballmovie.com Release Date: July 8, 2005 Studio: ThinkFilm Director: Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro Screenwriter: Not available Starring: Keith Cavill, Joe Soares, Mark Zupan Genre: Documentary MPAA Rating: R (for language and sexual content) Trailer: Click here Review: Not Available DVD Review: Not Available DVD/VHS: DVD release date (Nov. 29) Movie Poster: See below Buy Movie Poster: Not Available Production Stills: Not Available Plot Summary: 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. {mosgoogle} | Images: Poster and Stills (click to enlarge) | |