Darius Goes West (2007)

Name: Darius Goes West
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2007-12-01

1h 32m

Running Time

Plot.

Darius Weems, a 15-year-old with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, had never left his hometown of Athens, Georgia. In the summer of 2005, he and a group of young college students traveled across the country in a wheelchair-accessible RV to test accessibility in the United States. Their ultimate goal was to reach Los Angeles and convince MTV's hit show, "Pimp My Ride," to customize Darius's wheelchair. Along the way, they found joy, brotherhood, and the knowledge that life, even when imperfect, is always worth the ride.

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Cast & Crew.

Michael Jackson

Himself

Julia Eisenman

Producer

Gregory R. Schenz

Producer

Details.

Release Date
December 1, 2007

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 32m

Budget
$60,000

Genres
Documentary

Wiki.

Darius Goes West: The Roll of his Life is a documentary film by Logan Smalley about Darius Weems, a teenager living with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. In the middle of 2005 Weems embarked on a 7,000 mile road trip across the United States from his hometown in Georgia to MTV Headquarters in Los Angeles to ask them to customize his wheelchair on Pimp My Ride, as well to promote awareness of the fatal disease Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and to raise money for research into a cure.