Creating an emotional journey for audiences was exactly what the filmmakers behind “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story” hoped to achieve. Two decades after Christopher Reeve’s death, the documentary film, directed by Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui, takes an intimate snapshot of the late Superman actor’s life, from his Julliard days to the 1995 horseback-riding accident that left him paralyzed to his disability rights activism to the final years of his life.
The film opened to critical acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival in January and was named one of the National Board of Review’s best documentaries of 2024.
“How do you tell a story, which a lot of people know quite a bit about? The fact that people know about Chris’ accident and know about his death and knew he was Superman,” Bonhôte said as part of TheWrap’s