Christopher Reeve and 1998's 'Rear Window'
Up until recently, actor Christopher Reeve was the most famous disabled person. And yet, like most actors who became disabled later in life, he didn’t make many features after the 1995 horseback riding accident that left him a quadriplegic. I didn’t know of any films (though I was aware he’d appeared on an episode of the CW series Smallville), until I discovered he appeared in a made-for-TV remake of the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock film Rear Window.
There’s not a lot of info out there on the movie, and it’s odd that considering the snazzy (and VERY ‘90s) neo-noir trailer with Artisan Entertainment’s logo preceding it, that this aired in the States on ABC. But it was an event, marking the first time Reeve had been on-screen, in a narrative feature, in two years. As far as Rear Window remakes goes it’s not great. It’s cheesy and dated, with so much fascination about this burgeoning thing called the Internet and a lot of recorded voyeurism that plays very skeevy in the era of revenge porn.
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