Rose Ayling-Ellis: Signs for Change
9.7
2023
0 hr 59 min
Documentary
, TV Movie
Actress and Strictly Come Dancing 2021 winner Rose Ayling-Ellis reveals the daily challenges, discrimination, and barriers which are faced by deaf individuals.
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- Cast：
- Rose Ayling-Ellis
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everything you have heard about this movie is true.
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Disappointment for a huge fan!
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At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
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Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
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