Still: a Michael J Fox Movie

"I'm a tough sonofabitch," Michael J Fox tells director Davis Guggenheim during one of the interviews in this remarkable and heartfelt documentary. As we come to see, he really is. The film charts Fox's life from his early struggles to find work to his eventual global stardom thanks to 1985 sci-fi classic Back to the Future. Cleverly edited footage from his performances over the years, coupled with the occasional body double, illustrates what life was like for this energetic young Canadian, right up to the moment he awoke in a hotel room with a trembling little finger, the first sign of his early onset Parkinson's disease. The film-makers spend a lot of time with Fox as he undergoes endless physiotherapy, takes handfuls of pills and, heart-wrenchingly, injures himself over and over again with falls. Yet as poignant as it is to watch him discuss his pain, Fox doesn't want you to feel sorry for him, so there are also many scenes of him howling with laughter with his family. The end result is a fantastic, pity-free account of an extraordinary man determined to live his life at top speed, even as every doctor on screen begs him to slow down.