This was a great film. I wasn’t too sure at first: it’s about Michael, a guy with severe cerebral palsy who lives in a home for the disabled. He can’t speak comprehensibly although he’s clearly bright, and gets around by wheelchair. Then Rory arrives. He also is wheelchair-bound but has no problems talking, and can understand Michael pretty well. They strike up a friendship, and Rory starts to show Michael what life is like outside the home… leading to a bid for independent living.

The story is bittersweet, with some humour as well as a real insight into the lives of the severely disabled. The acting is wonderful. We couldn’t decide whether or not the actor playing Michael really did have cerebral palsy; so we watched the extras, which showed him as a young man with normal movement and speech. What an incredible actor.

Well worth watching. I just wish there hadn’t been quite so much bad language – although in context it wasn’t inappropriate. But it was enough to give the film a 15 rating despite there being no violence, nudity or sex. Recommended nonetheless to anyone wanting to see a little more of the world from the point of view of someone permanently in a wheelchair.