For break, movies to watch from CSD
Movie List
(with links to the Internet Movie DataBase)
1. "Temple Grandin" (2010): This visually inventive film offers insights into Grandin's world, taking the audience inside this autistic scientist's mind with a series of snapshot images that trace her self-perceptions and journey from childhood through young adulthood, to the beginning of her career and beyond. Currently shown on HBO. http://us.imdb.com/title/tt1278469/
http://www.hbo.com/movies/temple-grandin/index.html
2. "50 First Dates" (2004): Henry Roth is a man afraid of commitment until he meets the beautiful Lucy. They hit it off, and Henry think he's finally found the girl of his dreams, until he discovers she has short-term memory loss and forgets him the very next day.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0343660/
3. "Radio" (2003): The story of a high school coach and the developmentally challenged man whom he took under his wing. http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0316465/
4. "Dear John" (2010): A romantic drama about a soldier who falls for a conservative college student while he's home on leave. http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0989757/
5. "Regarding Henry" (1991): Henry is a lawyer who survives a shooting only to find he cannot remember anything. If that weren't enough, Henry also has to recover his speech and mobility, in a life he no longer fits into. Fortunately, Henry has a loving wife and daughter to help him. http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0102768/
6. "Nell" (1994): Nell is a girl who's been brought up in an isolated world. The only people she knew were her mother and twin sister. They lived together in a cottage in the forest. Nobody has ever met Nell. After her mother's death, she's discovered by the local doctor, Jerome. He's fascinated by her, since she speaks a mangled language, developed by her and her sister growing up -- "twin speak" if you will. But Paula, a psychology student, wants her observed in a laboratory. The judge decides they get three months to observe her in the forest, after which he'll decide about Nell's future. http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0110638/
7. "Awakenings" (1990): The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them. http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0099077/
8. "The Bone Collector" (1999): Denzel Washington plays a quadriplegic homicide detective. He and his female partner track down a serial killer. http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0145681/
9. "The Notebook" (2004): A poor and passionate young man falls in love with a rich young woman and gives her a sense of freedom. They soon are separated by their social differences. http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0332280/
10. "I Am Sam" (2001): A mentally retarded man fights for custody of his 7-year-old daughter, and in the process teaches his cold-hearted lawyer the value of love and family. http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0277027/