Filmed2Death Recommends: Music Within

This movie is my favorite movie! I saw it on Shotime because it was under the Comedy section and it was rated "R" and I believed that i was watching an "R" Rated Comedy but I was watching the uplifting and beautiful true story about a man named Richard Pimentel who helped fuel the Americans With Disabilities Act. The movie starts with his childhood and tells the story up until present times (2007) He grew up with a schizophranic mother and almost raised himself. He didn't have enough money to go to college so he applied for a federal grant from the government just as long as he went to vietnam. In vietnam he lost his hearing and wasn't authorized to go into college using government funds. Along the way he meets many people who change his life for the best and worst: Another Veteran with a temper named Mike Stoltz, A Genius with Cerebral Palsy named Art Honeyman, and a mentor named Ben Padrow. Along the way he falls in love and explores his life in ways that many can't understand. The acting is great. Michael Sheen (Various Twilight movies, Kingdom of Heaven) does a teriffic job at playing a man with Cerebral palsy that when i first saw it, i thought he actually had it. Ron livingston (Band of Brothers, Office Space)  plays an unbelivably relatable version of a hero. Everyone in this movie does a great job. The movie is full of hit songs like "Stuck in the Middle with You" By Stealers Wheel and " We Gotta Get out of this Place" By The Animals. I have seen this movie many times and once with commentary, and i have to say even the commentary on this movie is worth watching. There is one scene in which many who have seen this movie have cried, the scene is set at a pancake house and the time is one in the morning. It is Art's birthday and Richard takes him as a birthday gift. Immediately the viewers get a terrible vibe from the place. The man at the front door doesn't hold the door for Art and it is only to foreshadow the upcoming events. A woman at the counter gives Richard and Art funny looks but they go ahead and sit down. When the waitress comes by she tells them to leave and suddenly snaps on them and says things like: "I thought people like you died at birth, and people shouldn't have to eat around you." Then Art and Richard decide that they would rather be arrested than leave the pancake house on their own, and their need for the abolishment of these laws fuels thier love for all Americans with disabilities and drives them to make everyone equal.