Films About Arthritis

paula39
paula39 Member Posts: 8
edited 9. Aug 2010, 07:36 in Living with Arthritis archive
I was just on lovefilm.com's website and I found a film called Still Walking (and no it's about what you think) but it got my thinking are there any film about Arthritis? :?

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  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I guess you are after serious replies: I can only come up with My Big Fat Knee Surgery, an epic filmed in Feb 2002 (it was too!) DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I think there's one about an ugly green arthritis affectred ogre called 'Shriek'.
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • livinglegend
    livinglegend Member Posts: 1,425
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    The National Film Board of Canada has details of one, info at: http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=13565

    Note the superb angle-iron frame over the bed.

    Joseph 8)
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  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Ummm josef, that sounds serious. Was it? I have been trying very hard to think of more, but I am not good at this sort of thing. So many films, so many puns out there, such a little brain. DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • paula39
    paula39 Member Posts: 8
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Dreamdaisy,

    this is a message to say thanks for your message I have never heard of My Big Fat Knee Surgery so I can't say any thing about that film, but I have seen the Shriek films and I must say that the next time I see it I will be watching it a lot closer. :lol:

    Thank You
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I am hopeless at puns of that nature - there must be many but I can't find them. I cannot think of a single film that features an arthritic, but - is it Jeffrey Deavers (sp?) who writes crime novel featuring an arthritic cop? Perhaps AC should produce a documentary about arthritis. Perhaps they have. I don't know! DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • paula39
    paula39 Member Posts: 8
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Joseph,
    Thanks for you message I looked at the website that you told me about but as it was a documentary it made me think why don't they make more film about Arthritis as hundreds of people have it and I've seen film about other disease and the only time that I can think of seeing anyone with Arthritis in it is when I've films about King Henry The Eighth so what does that tell us? :x

    Anyway thanks again
    From Paula
  • agslegs
    agslegs Member Posts: 28
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Didn't Edif Piaff have RA? There was a film about her the other year so may be her arthritis was covered in the film.
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Yup, apparently she did. There was a recent thread on chitchat about famous arthritics - some surprsing names on it too! DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • sharmaine
    sharmaine Member Posts: 1,638
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Paula

    I certainly have never seen a film about arthritis. It's a good question you've raised.

    You would think someone would make one. If they do I would hope that they focus on the pain, misery, heartache, major surgery to replace joints, disability etc ! Lots of stuff on aids and cancer but nothing on this subject.

    So film producers if you're a fellow sufferer then get your writers to come up with an epic arthritic hero. :lol::lol:

    Sharmaine.
    X


    paula39 wrote:
    I was just on lovefilm.com's website and I found a film called Still Walking (and no it's about what you think) but it got my thinking are there any film about Arthritis? :?

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