disability in film examples
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A number of films with disability focus.TRANSCRIPT
Disability in film
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Warner Bros)
Autism Analyze This (Warner Bros)
Emotional problems
Mercury Rising (Universal Pictures)
Autism As Good As It Gets (Columbia TriStar)
OCD
Rain Man (United Artists)
Autism The Aviator (Miramax / Warner Bros)
OCD
The Man Who Played God (Warner Bros)
Deaf A Beautiful Mind (Universal / Dreamworks)
Schizophrenia
Music Within (MGM) Deaf Benny and Joon (MGM) Emotional and behavioural problems
See No Evil, Hear No Evil (TriStar Pictures)
Deaf / blind Girl Interrupted (Sony Pictures)
Mental health
A Dangerous Method (Sony Pictures)
Emotional disorders Jacob’s Ladder (TriStar) PTSD
American Psycho (Muse Productions)
Psychotic behaviour Me, Myself and Irene (20th Century Fox)
Split personality disorder
Mr Jones (TriStar) Depression One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (United Artists)
Emotional and behaviour disorders
Taxi Driver (Columbia Pictures)
PTSD Awakenings (Columbia Pictures)
Catatonia
Lorenzo’s Oil (Universal Pictures)
Degenerative brain disorder
Forrest Gump (Paramount)
Intellectual disability
Of Mice and Men (United Artists)
Intellectual disability The Village (Buena Vista) Blind / intellectual disability
Dumb and Dumber (New Line Cinema)
Cognitive disability Avatar (20th Century Fox) Paraplegic
Born on the 4th of July (Universal)
Paraplegic The Deer Hunter (Universal)
Paralysis
Dr. No (MGM) Prosthetic hands The Elephant Man (Paramount)
Disfigurement and degenerative disease
The English Patient (Miramax)
Paralysis and burns Finding Nemo (Buena Vista)
Under-developed limbs
The Horse Whisperer (Buena Vista)
Prosthetic leg My Left Foot (Miramax) Quadriplegic
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Miramax)
Paralysis X-Men (20th Century Fox) Paralysis
A Fish Called Wanda (MGM)
Speech impediment The King’s Speech (Weinstein)
Speech impediment
Blind Fury (TriStar) Blind Book of Eli (Warner Bros) BlindThe Notebook (New Line Cinema)
Alzheimers The Theory of Everything (Working Title)
MND