Films involving Limb & Spinal Conditions

Limb & Spinal Conditions: Major Films

Title	Raging Moon, The (1970)
Alternative/Original Title	Long Ago Tomorrow
Disability	Limb Paraplegia
Country	UK
Length	100
Genre	Romantic drama
Rating	2
Director	Bryan Forbes
Cast	Malcolm McDowell Nanette Newman
Notes	You're twenty minutes into the film before McDowell collapses with an unnamed disease. When asked in hospital what is wrong with him he says he can't remember the long name. The film is basically concerned only with a romance between two people in wheelchairs. It is pedestrian and plodding, badly acted and a cliched, ill-informed script. You'll understand very little about what it means to be plonked suddenly into a wheelchair except to feel a burning resentment against the world and be rude to everyone. (Mary McDonnel does this much better in 'Passion Fish') McDowell voluntarily goes to a home for the disabled where most of the occupants appear to spend their time playing cards or chess, and doing handicrafts. Some weak criticism is made of the sort of people who patronise such establishments and of the staff. The film spends much time on the supposed difficulties the pair have kissing while in wheelchairs and the arrangements to be made to get into the same bed.

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