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Release Date: Jul 8, 2005
Running Time: 86 mins.
Additional Notes: dialogue English
Country Of Origin: United States
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The lives of tough, highly competitive rugby players. Paraplegic rugby players. Whether by car wreck, fist fight, gun shot, or rogue bacteria, these men were forced to live life sitting down. In their own version of the full-contact sport, they smash the hell out of each other in custom-made gladiator-like wheelchairs. And no, they don't wear helmets.
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PETER TRAVERS -
July 14, 2005
A smashing documentary about quadriplegics in wheelchairs -- wait, it's not depressing. These are quadriplegics who play rugby for the U.S. Paralympics team -- wait, it's not sappy. Fierce action, foul language and even quad sex come under the microscope of filmmakers Henry-Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro as the film builds to the battle between the U.S. and Canadian teams. Wait -- it's not like something you've already seen. It's original, outrageous and murderous fun.
Without a trace of political correctness, Murderball tells the gritty and often amusing tale of the highly competitive, but unfortunately obscure sport of wheelchair rugby. But don't offer these hardcore athletes any sympathy: They don't want any. Story Played in steel-reinforced wheelchairs that look like something Mad Max would ride across the sands of post-apocalyptic Australia, quad rugby--a Canadian invention once called ''murderball''--has grown into a full-fledged Paralympic sport. Once…
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