By keeping the central theme simple, Edgar and his team are free to explore the nature of the relationships and the characters in the classroom alongside bigger themes such as attitudes to disability from within the community and without.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 4, 2009

Edgar gets a gold star for this cheeky send-up of the champagne socialists who make miserable films about (supposedly) miserable people.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 21, 2008

Ironically, he's exactly like Special People itself, which is trying so hard to say something profound about disability that it has forgotten to be a drama in the first place.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 21, 2008

At times Special People feels hobbled by the very political correctness it wants to poke fun at; still, it's nicely observed and crisply played, gently confounding a gaggle of prejudices during the course of a svelte 81-minute run.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 21, 2008

Well-meant but gruel-thin British comedy in which a failed film-maker helps wheelchair-bound teenagers to make a movie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 21, 2008

There's a refreshing lack of political correctness about Justin Edgar's budget comedy - it's an unflinching portrayal of the disabled as fully-functioning - and sometimes quite appalling - human beings and a droll challenge to lazy preconceptions.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 21, 2008

Now here's a little gem. Although shot for peanuts with a no-name cast, it'd take a very hard person not to thoroughly enjoy this heartwarming yarn.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 21, 2008

We are allowed to forget the wheelchairs and see the people in them, while still remembering the prejudices many have about the disabled.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 21, 2008

Engaging, nicely acted and sharply written comedy that imparts an important message while delivering several good laughs.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 21, 2008