2020 · documentary · political · coming-of-age
Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
Directed by Jim LeBrecht, Nicole Newnham1h 47m2020
Down the road from Woodstock in the early 1970s, a revolution blossomed in a ramshackle summer camp for disabled teenagers, transforming their young lives and igniting a landmark movement.
Our read: Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution (2020) reads as a warm, steady, grounded documentary · political · coming-of-age entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle documentary / political, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
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