Being Heumann (2026)

Name: Being Heumann
Genre: Biography, History
Released: 2026-08-29T20:32:57+02:00

Biography | 127 minutes

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Genre: Biography / History

Duration: 127 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Sian Heder

Stars: Ruth Madeley, Mark Ruffalo and Dylan O'Brien

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Being Heumann plot

It is the year 1977. Judy Heumann, raised in Brooklyn as the daughter of German-Jewish immigrants and wheelchair-bound since a case of polio in her childhood, knows that it takes perseverance and tenacity to get things done. So when Joseph Califano, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, refuses to sign meaningful regulations for Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973—the first national civil rights legislation intended to provide protection to people with disabilities—Judy devises a plan to pressure him.