Amanda Crehan

This is a very moving piece: raw, honest and unsentimental. The film cleverly edits together excerpts from Michael J Fox’s screen career to illustrate the actor’s account of his life which is entertaining and emotionally engaging in equal measure. These are interspersed with interviews with Michael in which he speaks directly to the camera. There is no vanity, ego or attempt to obfuscate. He tells it like it is without any self-pity and with no expectation of sympathy. The scenes in which he is working with his physiotherapist to try to slow himself down are a study in self-control and fortitude. While it is confronting to observe how the disease has ravaged him physically and while some scenes moved me to tears, the film did not leave me feeling hopeless or despondent. Instead I feel tremendous admiration for a man who has incorporated this terrible disease into his life and has refused to let it stop him living it.