102 mins/1998?

What do you do when you’re stuck in a fucking wheelchair and you can’t talk except using a voice machine and your carer doesn’t give a shit for anything except herself?  Sit round a lot, I suppose, talking to yourself.  What do you do when a man turns up and you fancy him except your carer does too, the bitch, and she steals him from under your nose cause she’s not a fucking spastic?
You try and steal him back, of course…
Says writer-actress Heather Rose who played a tiny part in de Heer’s earlier Bad Boy Bubby, “We felt a movie about a woman like me could work, but it had to be a dramatic story, not another ‘disability’ film.  That’s why we created Madelaine , a totally fictional character who represents the very worst of all the worst carers rolled into one.
“Working on the script gave me a big boost in confidence, because it meant someone really believed in me, in my ability to do something worthwhile, something that would benefit other people.”

Credits:-

Directed by Rolf de Heer

Cast:
Heather Rose (Julia), Joey Kennedy (Madelaine), John Brumpton (Eddie), Rena Owen (Rix)
Rolf de Heer, born 1951, obtained a diploma from the Australian School of Radio, TV & Cinema.  His previous films are Tale of a Tiger (1984), Incident at Raven’s Gate (1987), Dingo (1990), Bad Boy Bubby (1993), Epilson (1995) and The Quiet Room (1996).