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‘Being Huemann’ Review: Siân Heder’s First Film Since ‘CODA’ Is a Bold and Stirring Dramatization of the Protest That Launched the Disabled-Rights Revolution

In Siân Heder's first movie since "CODA," Ruth Madeley plays the disability-rights leader Judy Heumann like an officious Joan of Arc.

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Ruth Madeley plays the protest leader Judy Heumann like an officious Joan of Arc, and Mark Ruffalo is the soul of liberal bureaucratic weariness as the politician she's fighting.

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