Being Heumann

Plot

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.

About Being Heumann

Being Heumann is a 2026 American biographical drama film directed by Sian Heder, starring Ruth Madeley starring as disability rights activist Judith Heumann, and Mark Ruffalo as United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Joseph A. Califano Jr., who opposed the movement, led by Heumann, for the first U.S. federal civil rights protection for people with disabilities. The film is an adaptation of Heumann's memoir Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist. The film had its world premiere as the opening film of the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2026, and is set to be released theatrically by Apple Studios on November 6, 2026. It received positive reviews from critics.

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