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A Super Man: New Christopher Reeve Doc Shows How He Grappled With the Aftermath of His Tragic Accident
The new documentary "Super/Man," set for the Sundance Film Festival, features Christopher Reeve's children recounting their father's paralysis.
The actor had a cold poet father who didn’t approve of his movies and — legend has it — bought him Champagne mistakenly thinking he had been cast not as the superhero but in George Bernard Shaw’s “Man and Superman.” Reeve showed his love for his kids by taking them skiing and schussing to the bottom ahead of them. And it wasn’t done alone — the documentary makes it clear that Reeve had financial resources available that others do not, but stresses it was his blended family of Dana, his ex-partner Gae and his three children that made his post-accident life possible. “We’re not trying to re-write Superman but telling a story on how to approach an issue that society has turned its back on.” A quarter century after Reeve’s fall, opportunities and acceptance for the disabled have increased exponentially.
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