Story of ‘hero’ actor who found new purpose as disability campaigner after catastrophic accident
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story review - A perfectly decent doc lifted by throat-catching momentsSuper/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story: The previously unknown actor gained instant fame when cast as the hero of Richard Donner’s Superman in 1978. Photograph: Warner Bros. Entertainment IncIn an era when studios are shuffling too much of their material to streaming, it might seem churlish to wonder why a perfectly decent documentary is making its way into commercial cinemas.
The film was a smash, and, until his death in 2004, Superman was one of the two things with which Reeve would be immediately associated. The other was his work campaigning for the disabled in general and for those with spinal injuries in particular. Following an equestrian accident in 1995, Reeve was paralysed from the neck down. He found new purpose lobbying for research and for better care for those who use wheelchairs.
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