Being Heumann review – Coda director’s disability rights drama is well-intentioned but clunky

Toronto film festival: the rousing story of Judith Heumann makes for obvious dramatic fodder and at times this biopic finds a rebellious groove but too much feels cut-and-paste On my way to Toronto, I wheeled my suitcase toward the taxi that would take me to the airport, finding the curb cut in the sidewalk so that my luggage could roll seamlessly down to the street.

What a nice convenience provided by municipal governments all over the United States, one that so many of us take wholly for granted. But there was a fierce struggle for their existence, once deemed a radical, far too costly alteration to the nation’s infrastructure. (The same was argued about ramps and other means of accessibility. ) They now exist ubiquitously across the country largely because of the tireless efforts of disability rights activists like Judith Heumann, one of the most prominent…