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Murderball

OVERVIEW

Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Country of Origin: USA

Release Date: July 22, 2005

Distributors: MTV Films/ThinkFilm

Running Time: 86 minutes
MPAA Rating: R for language and some sexual content
Official Film Site: Link

DVD: Amazon

CAST & CREW

Directors: Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro

Producers: Jeffrey Mandel, Dana Adam Shapiro

SYNOPSIS

Featuring fierce rivalry, stopwatch suspense, and larger-than- life personalities, MURDERBALL 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 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.

From the gyms of middle America to the Olympic arena in Athens, Greece, MURDERBALL tells the story of a group of world-class athletes unlike any ever shown on screen. In addition to smashing chairs, it will smash every stereotype you ever had about "gimps" and "cripples." It is a film about family, revenge, honor, sex (yes, they can) 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 - has been crushed.

Winner of the Documentary Audience Award and a Special Jury Prize for Editing at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, and honored with an Academy Award® Nomination in 2006 for Best Documentary Feature.

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