In a message dated 12/12/2001 4:12:11 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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> Been racking my brains after reading your message, I was sure there
> > was at least one other movie I knew of which had a disabled
> > character that was just `part of the gang' so to speak, without the
> > usual (mostly patronisingly icky) focus on the disability -

In the movie "Rush,"  there is a kid in a wheelchair.  I didn't see the whole
movie, but I saw a few scenes where he was fooling around in his wheelchair
and finally tipped it backwards all they way over.  All you could see was his
feet and footrest of the chair going up and back in the foreground of the
scene.  It was a hoot.

Betty