Name: Being Heumann
Genre: Drama, History
Released: 2026-11-06
Cast: Ruth Madeley, Mark Ruffalo, Dylan O'Brien, Madeline Delp, Rob Delaney

About the film

Scrappy, defiant, and done being treated like a burden, Judy Heumann turns her outrage into a revolution. In 1977, she and more than 100 disability rights protestors send a very loud message: The system is broken—not us.

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Fi1m review

Coming soon. Our review of Being Heumann will be published shortly before it opens in Hungary on 13 November 2026, once the press has seen it and there is something to weigh it against.

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Cast

Ruth Madeley

Judith 'Judy' Heumann

Madeline Delp

Kitty Cone

Michael Patrick Thornton

Ed Roberts

Antwan Tolliver

Brad Lomax

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Judy Heumann (Ruth Madeley) and demonstrators raise their hands in the street

A man addresses a crowded meeting as attendees sit around a conference table

Judy Heumann (Ruth Madeley) speaks with a kneeling demonstrator in the street

Wheelchair users gather outside a building as a police officer blocks the doorway

A suited man addresses disability-rights demonstrators in a government corridor

Wheelchair users gather around desks in an office, smiling and talking

Being Heumann

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