Watch a fictional feature length film that either focuses on a disability/different ability or a main character has a disability/different ability.   After reading this week’s material and watching a

The films listed below are only a few movies that address disability or different ability issues.

Autism Spectrum Disorders

Adam (2009)

Mary and Max (2009)

Mozart and the Whale (2005)
Her Name is Sabine (2007)

Rain Man (1988)

Temple Grandin (2010)

The Other Sister (1999)

The Station Agent (2003)

What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)

Blindness

Blind (1987) 
Blindness (2008)

Blindsight (2006)

Butterflies are Free (1972)
City Lights (1931)

The Color of Paradise (1999) 
Dancer in the Dark (2000)

Scent of a Woman (1992)

Wait Until Dark (1967)

Cerebral Palsy

Door to Door (2002)

Enter the Faun (2014)

Margarita, With a Straw (2014)

Music Within (2007)
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)

War Eagle, Arkansas (2007)

Deafness

Children of a Lessor God (1986)

Little Brother (2011)

Mr. Holland’s Opus (1995)

Music Within (2007)

Sound and Fury (2000)

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968)

Dissociative Identity Disorder

David and Lisa (1962)

Frankie & Alice (2010)

Sybil (1976)

The Three Faces of Eve (1957)

Walking Madison (2010)

Down Syndrome and Other Mentally Challenged

Dance Like Nobody’s Watching (2009)

Educating Peter (1992)

Front of the Class (2008)

I am Sam (2001)

Phoebe in Wonderland (2008)

Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire (2009)

Radio (2003)

Locked-in Syndrome

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

Quadriplegia, Paraplegia, or Amputation

Beeswax (2009)

Born of the Fourth of July (1989)

Coming Home (1978)

Live Flesh (1997)

Men of Honor (2000)

Quid Pro Quo (2008)

The Bone Collector (1999)

The Men (1950)

The Waterdance (1992)

Whose Life is It, Anyway? (1981)

Schizophrenia

A Beautiful Mind (2001)

Benny & Joon (1993)

Clean, Shaven (1994)

Lilith (1964)

Shutter Island (2010)

The Fisher King (1991)

The Soloist (2009)