Wheels

2014

Action / Drama

19
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 98% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 98% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.4/10 10 6893 6.9K

paraplegic junkie

Plot summary

Two suicidal paraplegic junkies hustle their way through the city streets trying to find a reason to live.

Director

Tim Gagliardo Photo
Tim Gagliardo

Top cast

Vincent Duvall Photo
Vincent Duvall as Det. William Fischer
Diana Gettinger Photo
Diana Gettinger as Janet
Will Jennings Photo
Will Jennings as Little Mickey
P.L. Brown Photo
P.L. Brown as Biker #1
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23.976 fps
1 hr 55 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by joebartone 8 / 10

Some secrets you keep will paralyze you.

A touching and often funny deep dive into the lives of a group of people with barely the resources to survive being homeless in Los Angeles. Two wheel-chair friends decide to pair up and share the burdens of their mental, emotional, and physical pain, limitations, and suffering. Finding comfort in anything they can reach for from their chairs, they do all they can to stave off an impending knowledge that they simply do not fit in society, and the sooner they come to terms with that, the sooner society can be finally rid of them. Once their greatest fears are met full on, we see the beauty and frailty in life they had so long ago lost faith in.
Reviewed by astrostar-18501 6 / 10

Average movie (some minor spoilers)

Firstly, when you see so many 10's, then your B.S. antenna should be up, this movie is a 6 or 6 1/2 at best. I will say this, Patrick Hume as "Drake" was great in it, that guy's got a future for sure. One can understand where the writer was trying to take this, trying to show how sometimes the despair of being a paraplegic, the self recrimination, the sense of hopelessness etc, can lead people to try and escape their reality through drug use and even suicide. Some of the scenes of drug use, attempted suicide and the violence made me cringe, I'll admit, it's not for someone with a weak stomach. Despite some good potential in this story, some of the plot lines were just not believable. Even if our two protagonists engaged in hold ups (laugh at that idea if you will) or faking injuries to scam money out of strangers to buy drugs, how long could they do it before the police arrived and arrested them? Are they going to try and outrun the police in their wheelchairs? No wonder you never see a cop in sight. Their are a lot of flashbacks in this movie, hinting at the cause of Donavon's paralysis, but the denouement, the final unraveling and explanation of it at the end of the movie, is just not credible. I won't spoil it for you, but suffice to say, it beggars belief. It is an interesting movie, quite unlike any I've seen before, but ultimately, it's let down by some mediocre acting (with the exception of Patrick Hume) and some glaring plot holes.
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