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Patrice: The Movie, currently streaming on Hulu, tells the story of Patrice Jetter and Garry Wickham, a disabled couple whose desire to get married is impeded by government bureaucracy.

Disabled people risk losing not only their benefits but their Medicaid if they tie the knot, or even live together, and both Patrice and Garry are fighting to see that change.

Patrice is an outspoken activist for the rights of the disabled, and she tells ABC Audio there’s a simple reason why she speaks out.

“Because what’s happening is an injustice to not just me and my friends, but an injustice to everyone with a disability all over the country,” she says. “Somebody has to be willing to not be afraid to speak up.”

While Patrice and Garry haven’t gotten married, they did celebrate their love with commitment ceremony, which Patrice says was “the happiest day of my life.”

“It was like the next best thing to getting legally married,” she shares. Garry adds, “The day was something I had completely dreamed of that I never thought would happen for me.” 

The film’s director, Tom Passon, says he hopes the film brings awareness to the marriage penalty, sharing, “We’re really hoping that this film can help be that national conversation so that something can finally change after all these years.”

For Patrice, she’s hoping viewers who watch the movie will be inspired to speak out and lend their support, while Garry hopes viewers will simply realize disabled people are just like everyone else. 

“We’re no different. We want the same wants, we want the same things,” he says. “And you know, we want to be able to do the same things you do, only we do them differently.”

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Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans are on a mission to save Christmas.

In Amazon MGM Studios’ new action-packed trailer for Red One, a bounty hunter, played by Chris Evans, is kidnapped and brought to the North Pole, where he is informed Santa has been abducted.

Also starring in the Jake Kasdan-directed film are J.K. Simmons as Santa and Kiernan Shipka, Bonnie Hunt and Lucy Liu, among others.

Evans and Johnson, the latter of whom plays the North Pole’s head of security, team up in the trailer for the action-comedy, which follows the duo on the search for the missing jolly man.

“Are you saying Santa Claus has been kidnapped?” asks Evans after being informed that “Red One” had been abducted.

The trailer explains Evans will be working with Johnson, whom he vocally expresses distaste for, to track down everyone’s favorite Christmas icon.

The magic of the North Pole is in full effect throughout clip as a polar bear with human qualities dominates the screen for several shots, supply closets double as portal systems and several fantasy creatures appear throughout the quest to “save Christmas.”

According to a synopsis for the film, when Santa is kidnapped, Johnson’s character “must team up with the world’s most infamous bounty hunter,” played by Evans, “in a globe-trotting, action-packed mission to save Christmas.”

Red One is set to hit theaters on Nov. 15.

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Chelsea Handler has been tapped to host the 30th annual Critics Choice Awards, marking her third straight year hosting the show, the Critics Choice Association announced on Thursday. The awards, which honor the finest in cinematic and television achievement, have historically been the most accurate predictor of Academy Award nominations. The 30th annual Critics Choice Awards will air live Jan. 12 …

Deadline reports Tom Hardy, Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan are in final talks to star in Guy Ritchie‘s series for Paramount+, tentatively titled The Associate. The one-hour drama “follows two generations of gangsters, the business they run, the complex relationships they weave and the man they call upon to fix their problems.” Hardy is reportedly up for the role of Harry, the fixer, “a man who is as dangerous as he is handsome,” while Mirren and Brosnan would star as the crime family’s respective matriarch and patriarch … 

Kevin Costner‘s next project will be the surf thriller Headhunters, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Costner will star in the movie he co-wrote with cinematographer Steven Holleran, making his feature film directorial debut. Headhunters, per the official logline, combines “kinetic energy of surf culture with the suspense of horror.” It will star Costner as “a washed up American ex-pat” who recruits a group of surfers to search an uncharted island to pioneer the “perfect wave.” To their surprise, the island is inhabited by an ancient tribe of headhunters guarding it at all costs, leading to a battle for survival. Production is set to start in November …

Stephen Graham, who played Hayden Stagg in the sixth and final season of Netflix’s Peaky Blinders, tells Deadline he’ll be starring in the streaming service’s movie based on the series, joining Cillian Murphy, Rebecca Ferguson, Barry Keoghan and Tim Roth. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but series creator Steven Knight describes the film as “an explosive chapter in the Peaky Blinders story. No holds barred. Full-on Peaky Blinders at war” …

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