Film Medical Theme: Handicap et Paralysie

The Sea Inside

Language : English

Year : 2004

Featuring : Javier Bardem, Lola Duennas, Celso Bugallo, Mabel Rivera,
Belen Rueda

Medical Theme : Bioethics / Quadriplegia

Story Line : Raman Sampedro, a Spaniard who's a quadriplegic, determined to die with dignity, leads a 30-year campaign to win the right to end his life. Sampedro inspires his lawyer, Julia and a local woman to reach for the stars.

Million Dollar Baby

Language : English

Year : 2005

Medical Theme : Tetraplegia

Actors : Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman.

Storline : Maggie Fitzgerald (Hillary Swank), is a determined thirty year old waitress, who’s ambition is to become a professional boxer in spite of her struggling economic background. Maggie finds Frankie (Clint Eastwood), a talented boxing trainer, and is determined to make him her coach. Frankie is a lone old man unwilling to get close to anyone. His only friend, Scrap (Morgan Freeman), knows that beneath his tough looks is a man who has been seeking,the forgiveness that somehow continues to elude him. Then one day Maggie walks into his life...

My Own Love Song

Language : English

Year : 2010

Medical Theme : Disability

Actors : Renee Zellweger, Forest Whitaker, Madeline Zima, Nick Nolte

Storline : Renee Zellweger, plays the role of Jane, a paralyzed former singer who lives alone and has a friend who claims that he can interact with angels. Joey (Forest Whitaker), Jane's friend, accidentally comes across a letter from Jane’s son, inviting her to come to his communion. Joey decides to take her to see her son. During the journey they two come across many people and finally reach Louisiana. Joey then tells her about her son. After staying away from him for six years, Jane is overcome with guilt and finds it difficult to meet him, but in the end she finds strength through the spiritual transformation she achieved during the journey to Louisiana and finally meets her son.

Men Of Honor

Language : English

Year : 2000

Medical Theme : Disability

Actors : Robert Di Niro, Cuba Gooding, Jr, Charlize Theron

Storline : Carl Brashear is a black American and joins the American navy in 1948 when racism in America was still at its peak. The film Men Of Honor is about how Brashear fights his way to the top of the American navy, overcoming racial oppression and large-scale injustice against the blacks in America. The film mainly focuses on the conflict between officer ‘Billy’ Sunday and Brashear. But as time progresses Brashear proves to be very successful and becomes a hero, while Sunday is a complete failure. But while on a mission Brashear loses one of his legs and with dreams yet to be accomplished, the rest of the film is about how Brashear fights his disabilities to achieve his goals.