Films involving Limb & Spinal Conditions

Limb & Spinal Conditions: Major Films

Title	Live Flesh (1997)
Alternative/Original Title	1. Carne Tremula 2. En chair et en os
Disability	Limb Paralysis
Country	France/Spain
Length	101
Genre	Sport
Rating	4
Director	Pedro Almodovar
Cast	Liberto Rabal Francesca Neri Javier Bardem Angela Molina Jose Sancho Penelope Cruz
Notes	A row between lovers results in the police being called. The man is accidentally shot leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. He becomes a famous basketball star playing for Spain's Olympic paraplegic team. ************************************************************ A woman has a one night stand with a young man. But he becomes obsessed by her. Turning up at her appartment she pulls a gun on him. The gun goes off and two cops arrive. The young man now has the gun and one of the cops struggles with him. the gun goes off accidentally, the cop is shot and paralysed from the waist down. The action moves forward a year and the cop is playing in the Olympic wheelchair basketball competition. The young man is in prison. When he comes out of prison he finds his mother has died of cancer. At her funeral meets an older woman who has been at the funeral of a friend of the paralysed cop. They become lovers. Then he joins a children's group where the ex-cop's wife works. She was the woman he had the fling with before she married. The woman who is his lover is married to the other cop at the scene. It turns out that it was the older cop who shot his partner because he was screwing his wife. Elena the young cop's wife keeps her distance from Victor but then goes to him for a whole night of love making which is what he said he had imagined having with her. In the end she is pregnant by Victor. From a novel by Ruth Rendell

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