Back in the summer, the newly pedestrianised town centre streets in Blackpool had an amazing effect on the disabled locals.
No longer restricted to dodging traffic, or risking toppling off a raised pavement, I saw a group of exuberant fiftysomethings literally racing each other in powered wheelchairs.
They were having the time of their lives and looked incredibly filmic, too.
Lo and behold, INSIDE IM DANCING (15) capitalises on this potential to createan unlikelyfilmofthe week, a captivating story which really puts the move into movie.
Watch the adventures of disabled young men Michael Connolly (Steven Robertson) and Rory OShea (James McAvoy) and they will leave you laughing, and crying and thinking - and often all at the same time.
Michael has cerebral palsy and has always lived in residential care.
But his predictable life is turned upside down by the arrival of Rory (above), whose muscle-wasting condition Duchenne muscular dystrophy has not affected his machine-gun lips and spiky-haired attitude.
The only problem with Dancing with Chairs will be to convince blinkered cinema-goers to forego just another Hollywood block-buster in favour of something much more human.
If you still need persuading, consider this.
Set in Dublin, its been madeby EastisEastdirector Damian ODonnell and the producers of Billy Elliot from a screenplay by Goldeneye writer Jeffrey Caine.
The performances by Shetland-born newcomer Steven Robertson and James McAvoy (Tumnus in next years The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe) are outstanding, Robertson using every facial muscle and sinew to convey his trapped physical state.
And, as their carer, Siobhan, I Capture the Castle star Romola Garai is not just eye candy for the boys.
Like Kate Winslet, shes also a fine actress who manages to convey the distant tenderness which the best nurses need for the job.
Above all, Inside Im Dancing reflects how inside the most physically disa-bled of people theres a real person willing to have a whale of a time given the opportunity.
At the end of a week when former Superman Christopher Reeve died nine years after a fall confined him to a wheelchair for one fifth of his life, dash along, count your blessings and let these dudes into your hearts for 104 minutes.
Youll soon find that both Michael and Rory are super men, too.
