‘Still: A Michael J. Fox Film’

Continued from page 5 sideways. The doctor, he recounts, laid out the odds: “You lose this game.’’

But after a period of heavy drinking, Fox says the disorder, despite sending tremors through his body, made him more present, stiller. Pollan and their children are surely a big reason for that.

Fox is never so endearing as when he’s extolling the levelheadedness of his wife: “I could be the King of England and she would be her. I could be Elvis and she would be her.”

“Still” finally makes you realize that even Fox’s likability can be a burden. Being widely beloved while suffering through debilitating pain is another layer to his Parkinson’s journey, one rarely so intimately observed. When Guggenheim follows him out of his Upper East Side apartment in Manhattan, the difficulty Fox has just walking is as apparent as his abiding will to remain a man of good cheer. After a stumble near a fan on the sidewalk, Fox brightly jokes: “Nice to meet you. You knocked me off my feet!”

“Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie,” an Apple TV+ release is rated R by the Motion Picture Association for language. Running time: 94 minutes.