Inside I'm Dancing (2004)

Deeper than the descriptions

Too much about the plot just didn't add up, the writing was bad, some of the scenes were cringey and awkward,

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Written by Jeffrey Caine ('GoldenEye', 'The Constant Gardener') and directed by Damien O'Donnell ('East is East'), this is a heart-warming, character-driven comedy-drama which teaches you how to live, and inspires you to be the best you can possibly be. The film moves you, as well as finds humour in the most unusual places, and that's what makes the movie so enjoyable.Michael is sad, dull ans shy guy in a Home-for-Disabled who has cerebral palsy and can't talk comprehensibly. Rory, the new guy with muscle dystrophy, is a complete rebel and has a way with his words and wit. Both their lives change for the best.Jsmes McAvoy and newcomer Steven Robertson are brilliant and funny in their portrayals of Rory and Michael respectively. The background score is captivating.

"Rory O'Shea Was Here" is a film about living life the way you want to not the way you have to. Although, that's not easy for Rory O'Shea (James McAvoy) who has Muscular Dystrophy, it's especially not easy for Michael (Steven Robertson) who has Cerebral Palsy. It's also not easy for a film to depict that with heartfelt meaning and no melodrama. That is assuredly accomplished here by making it a character-driven comedy.James McAvoy is probably best known for his looks and then followed by his dramatic turns in "The Last King of Scotland" (2006) and Atonement (2007), but I first met him in this character-rich comedic role. McAvoy and Robertson both portrayed their disabilities perfectly but that almost seems to be besides the point when they are able to use comedy to make us care about them.Rory's the rebel with his blonde, spiked hair and his unrelenting determination to always break the rules. Michael is the speech-impaired, lost soul who only does what the nurses at the home tell him to do—and even then, he's usually not physically able. From there it's a comedy of camaraderie when Rory can understand what Michael says and Michael has immediately found his new best friend. Good-natured trouble ensues.Together, Rory and Michael want to live independently without any rules. The film takes some dramatic turns as they discover that there are always rules—and girls. How comes girls and rules always seem to come hand-in-hand? The transitions between comedy and drama are barely even noticeable because of the chemistry that McAvoy and Robertson have and their effortless ease in making us care about Rory and Michael so deeply.

This movie left me amazed. and sad. and happy.It's about two men in wheelchairs, who are living their life. that's all I'm gonna say because it really doesn't more.My mom works with people with disabilities and I've seen it really close and it's amazing how this movie portrays the two main characters. I've got nothing bad to say about it. It shows that people with disabilities have feelings, desires, different moods, intelligence, sense of humor etc. They're people as much as we all are. The human in you doesn't disappear even if you can't talk like others.James McAvoy and Steven Robertson make the performances of their lives. They make the characters real and raw. Not too independent or annoying, not too helpless, but enough to make them human. They made me laugh so that my stomach was aching and they also made me cry so that I couldn't see the TV screen.I think everyone should see this movie. It shows that even when things aren't the way you would want them, you can still live your live fully. you just have to do it. live it.

I want to love this movie - I mean really love it. I really do. But I didn't. There was something about it that just kept me from making the move from thinking this was pretty good to actually loving it. The strong points are obvious: the acting of James McAvoy as Rory and Steven Robertson as Michael. They were absolutely convincing as young men who suffered from quadraplegia and cerebral palsy respectively. In fact, it's difficult to believe that they really aren't disabled - particularly Robertson, whose performance I thought was the better of the two, but not by much. The story is both inspiring and, in the end, a bit downcast. Rory is the young man who yearns for independence from his condition and who hates being institutionalized, while Michael is the one who passively accepts the institution as his world. When the two come together, everything changes. They develop a fast friendship, and yet it's also obvious that Rory is using Michael to "spring" himself. In the end, the great irony is that Rory, who wanted out of the institution, dies institutionalized (in a hospital) while Michael, who was content (although perhaps not happy) in an institution is able to celebrate the freedom that he only has because of Rory. You spend the entire movie rooting for these two to overcome the odds. Somehow, though, and for some reason, the movie still failed to fully draw me in.