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Autism Major 
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DISABILITY |
Autism
General
Stroke
Learning
difficulty
Mental |
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NOTES |
Set in the
beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains contrasted with |
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urban
ugliness. Jodie Foster is a young woman who has |
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been brought
up by her mother who had suffered a stroke in |
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the deep
backwoods. She is found by a doctor (Liam |
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Neeson)
after her mother has died but she is unable to speak |
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except in a
language known only to her mother. |
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The doctor
becomes her teacher, she becomes our teacher |
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for this is
another film in which those with learning |
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difficulties/autism are associated with the natural, a life we
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have lost,
and what might be good for us. |
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A worthy
film, worthy performances, Foster headed for an |
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Oscar even
if some might see the bones beneath the skin. |
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Notes
See the review at The
Women's Studies Database |
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