When Billy Broke his Head... And Another Tales of Wonder is a funny, irreverent road movie about disability, civil rights, and the search for intelligent life after brain damage. Billy Golfus, an award-winning journalist, suffered a severe head injury in a motor scooter accident ten years ago. When Billy Broke his Head... tells of Billy´s struggle to make a new life for himself in the face of pervasive discrimination and bureaucratic “helping systems,” which keep him trapped in a labyrinth of government rules and legislated poverty. Along with filmmaker David Simpson, Billy encounters disabled people around the country, and witnesses the strength and anger that is forging a new civil rights movement for disabled Americans. Definitely a documentary with an attitude, When Billy Broke his Head... blends humor with radicals politics, individual experience with a chorus of voices, all the while refusing to tell the “inspirational” stories we have come to expect from this films about people with disabilities.
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