When the curtain went up at the 1996 Oscars to reveal actor Christopher Reeve, you could almost feel the global television audience take a collective breath. Less than a year earlier, the 42-year-old Superman star had been paralysed from the neck down after a near-fatal equestrian accident; now, there he was on stage, in a wheelchair and breathing with the help of a ventilator.Fast facts about Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve StoryWhat: A career-spanning portrait of the late Superman star and disability activist Christopher ReeveDirectors: Ian Bonhôte, Peter EttedguiStarring: Christopher Reeve, Dana Reeve, Alexandra Reeve Givens, Matthew Reeve, Will Reeve, Gae Axton, Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg, Glenn Close, Jeff DanielsWhen: In cinemas nowLikely to make you feel: MovedReeve delivered the kind of self-deprecating joke that had made him the definitive Clark Kent, and Hollywood’s luminaries gave him a lengthy standing ovation. But the mood was sombre: if this could happen to the…
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