In a New York hospital Dr Malcolm Sayers finds a group of "forgotten" coma patients, seemingly oblivious to the world and beyond help. Through sheer dedication he discovers a spark of life in his charges and a long suppressed capacity for love in himself. A beautiful and uplifting true story.
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LORENZO'S OIL (1992)
Certification15 Our Rating
A remarkably moving drama that avoids being over-sugary. Nolte and Sarandon play a couple whose son devolps ALD, a rare and incurable nerve disease. Leaving behind the medical establishment they race against time searching for a cure. A powerful tale of a successful struggle against the odds.
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THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES (2004)
Certification15 Our Rating
It's the early 50s in Argentina and two middle class medical students decide to make a journey across their largely unknown continent. While on this eight month travel one of the men begins his own journey from privileged ignorance to iconic revolutionary, the birth of Che Guevara has begun. The Motorcycle Diaries is a breathtakingly beautiful film, beginning as a whimsical, idiosyncratic and often humorous adventure and gradually expanding into a powerful and deeply moving drama.
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VERA DRAKE (2004)
Certification12 Our Rating
Vera Drake, is one of the kindest, most selfless individuals any right thinking person could hope to meet, the mother of two grown up children, the wife of a loving husband, she works as a cleaner and is the epitome of a warm hearted decency. Vera is not just devoted to her family however, in the little spare time available to her she helps young girls terminate unwanted pregnancies and, though she takes no payment, this is 1950s Britain and the consequences for her actions, should she be discov
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