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TITLE Floating Away (1998)

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DISABILITY Cancer

COUNTRY USA

LENGTH 105

GENRE Road Movie

DIRECTOR John Badham

CAST Rosanna Arquette

Paul Hogan

Judge Reinhold

NOTES Arquette plays a woman broken up by the death of her father. She becomes an alcoholic and loses her husband and child. Then she meets two drifters in a van and goes off with them.
One played by Hogan is in a wheelchair he says after being thrown off a horse.. He has colostomy bag. He tells a number of stories to explain his disability but in fact has spinal cancer and a year to live.
This film belongs to Hogan's second wave i.e. all the rubbish he's done since "Crocodile Dundee".
   

 


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