Inside I'm Dancing (2004)

Director: Damien O'Donnell
Writer: Story: Christian O'Reilly Screenplay: Jeffrey Caine
Cast: Steven Robertson, James McAvoy, Romola Garai
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Inside I'm Dancing takes us to a residential home for disabled in Dublin, where cerebral palsy Michael (Robertson) lives with his nearly unintelligible speech and no contact with the outside world. With the arrival of the kinetic Rory (McAvoy) things soon start to change as Rory understands Michael without any gadgets.

The trio of McAvoy, Robertson and Garai are close to perfect casting, as they all deliver multi-leveled performances. We get a heartwarming story told without stepping into the most common mistakes done in these kind of movies, and then we'll easily excuse the way they use Rory to repeat everything Michael says, even when they're alone (to make us understand him). It's pretty much the only way we are able to understand him, so its an obvious choice for the story.