Murderball

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Release Date: July 15, 2005 (limited)

On DVD/VOD: November 29, 2005

1h 25m | Documentary

Featuring fierce rivalry, stopwatch suspense, and larger-than-life personalities, Murderball, winner of the Documentary Audience Award and a Special Jury Prize for Editing at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, 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 have been forced to live life sitting down. In their own version of the full-contact sport, they battle each other in custom-made gladiator-like wheelchairs, pursuing gold medals and proving to themselves and to anyone who sees them in action that there is life after disability.

From the gyms of middle America to the Olympic arena in Athens, Greece, Murderball tells the story of a group of indomitable, world-class athletes unlike any ever shown on screen. It will smash every stereotype you ever had about "gimps" and "cripples." It is a film about family, revenge, honor, 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, have been crushed.