Great movies about people with a disability?

Inside Moves with John Savage as Roary is one of my all-time favorites.

Since it is so little known. A True Gem. A nice return to acting for Harold Russell also.

Russell's previous film The Best Years of our Lives made 34 years before is not entirely about people with disabilities but his scene showing how his artificial arms worked and showing his girlfriend what life would be like married to him is unequaled and the one of most intimate scenes I have ever seen in any film.

...wait, what do you mean, Paulie Shore isn't disabled?

and not in a good way!

The worst was "A Patch of Blue" with Sidney Poitier.

link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Patch_of_Blue

"A Beautiful Mind".

With Alan Arkin as a deaf mute, and with a very young Sondra Locke. Wonderful sad story.

The only reason I ever saw the movie in the first place is that the house Arkin's character rents a room in belonged to relatives of my mother during the Depression. When my grandfather had to leave their farm, her family shared that house with the relatives for a few years. Mom heard that the house was used in the movie and got me to go to the theater with her to see it.

Life in a Southern town of that period without shoving the issues in your face. It is all very low key. But it brought back how insular those little towns were, how they limited people's choices. The way Mick yearns for music and how impossible it seems to her that she might get a chance to even hear it. The way the doctor does not want to treat a white man, even one whose position in life is so much lower than his own.

I grew up in a small Southern town not a lot different than that one and do not have fond memories of the experience.

Watching it last week also reinforced the feeling that we could be returning to those times in some ways, with choices limited not only by economic circumstances but because our social systems are closing down.

I just watched it again last week. Everything about that movie is perfect. I want to live near Joe, too.

if you ever get a chance to see this, don't miss it!

Hi,
Was hoping to see this on the list. I have to agree a very well made movie I thought and I liked the way it "showed" the way her mind works. What a fascinating person and she has contributed a lot of good to the world of humans and animals.

Peace

he also is an aspy and it's difficult to comprehend how that kind of mind works. It's amazing how far an aspy can go with the right kind of guidance (and gives me great hope for his future).

Whoo-ah.

Zatoichi rocks!

With Lon Chaney Jr. and Burgess Meredith.

it'll make you laugh and cry...

:thumbsup:

It's amazing how she is able to dress herself in the morning.

Emotional disability, but beautiful movie. One of my favorites.

At the height of the Great Depression, the showman of a renowned circus discovers a man without limbs being exploited at a carnival sideshow, but after an intriguing encounter with the showman he becomes driven to hope against everything he has ever believed.


http://vimeo.com/17150524

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Harold Russell plays a WWII vet who has lost both hands and is returning home to his family and sweetheart. It is just one of the stories in this wonderful film and it is the most unforgettable.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115751/combined

They both had their disabilities although hers was mental and his was physical. Amazing movie and I can see where Alexandar Skarsgård got his great looks (Eric from True Blood). I had a crush on Stellan in that movie!

and it really sticks with me even after a few years.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0150915/combined

It's an very well done biopic about Jacqueline Du Pré, who back in the 70s was one of the premiere Cellists in the world. Turned out she had multiple sclerosis, which ended her career before she was 30. The story showed the very volitile relationship between Jackie and her sister Hilary, a flautist who never quite had the same level of success but did find true love. (Rachel Griffith did a great turn as Hilary)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_du_Pr%C3%A9

She burned up more energy than any fiddler I have ever seen. When i say "fiddler" i mean "classical string player" -- violin, viola, cello, or bass.

She played the Elgar Cello Concerto and was absolutely amazing. Emily Watson did a great job of portraying her.

Look up Jacqueline's videos on YouTube. She was an amazing cellist at age 19!

I hate that Jon Voight was such a fantastic actor and such a weird douche IRL.

The King's Speech is certainly one for your list and The Lost Prince is about that King's little brother John.

Prince John had epilepsy and what was probably a form of Autism. The Royal family sent the boy away to live on a farm outside of London to avoid the "embarrassment" he might cause in public.

Good film.

It's one of those movies that you keep thinking about even a week later.

Bush and his cronies all have serious mental challenges!

And I'm still not sure if Dick Cheney has a heart.

Kenneth Branagh and Helena Bonham-Carter

From IMDB -

"A dreamer who aspires to human flight is assigned public service after one of his attempts off a public building. This leads him to meeting a young woman, who is dying of motor neuron disease. The strong-willed woman admits her wish to be de-flowered before her death. The man, struggling to maintain his relationship with his girl friend, declines but offers to help pay for a gigolo to do the deed. The following events play off the inherent comedy and drama of the circumstances. "

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120861/

It's the touching story of a young mentally disabled man who eventually grows up to become leader of the free world. It's fiction, of course, no way anything like that could happen in reality.

The life of Gaby Brimer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and triumph.

William H. Macy.

Fantastic performance and based on a true story;

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274468/

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Other Side of the Mountain is a 1975 American film based on a true story of ski racing champion Jill Kinmont.

In early 1955, Kinmont was the national champion in slalom and was a top U.S. prospect for a medal in the 1956 Winter Olympics, a year away. She was paralyzed in a near-fatal downhill accident at the Snow Cup in Alta, Utah, weeks before her 19th birthday, leaving her quadraplegic.

I liked it quite a bit.

about FDR and Eleanor. It was a TV movie, but it was excellent!