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‘Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story’ Review: A Superbly Made and Supremely Moving Portrait of the Actor’s Fall and Rise
Christopher Reeve's life became a parable, and this documentary is a superbly made portrait of his fall and rise.
After nearly five decades of comic-book movies, Reeve’s Man of Steel — the chiseled handsome-hawk profile, the fleet muscularity, the helmet of black hair with its forehead curl just so, the true-blue nobility of his eyes — made him the only actor I’ve ever seen play a superhero who truly seemed like a pop god who’d just stepped out of the comic books. We learn what a troubled person he was, growing up in a broken home that made him feel lost as he shuttled between two families and contended with a stern, unloving father who hated popular culture (he was a poet, novelist, and literary scholar), and who Reeve could never please. The interviews with Reeve’s children, Matthew, Alexandra, and William, are revealing and touching, and the warm valor shown by his wife, Dana (who died in 2006), proves a wonder to behold.
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